In his recent column, Associate Professor of Political Science Thomas Schaller wrote about former California governor Ronald Reagan‘s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Detroit. “The moment signaled an important pivot in modern American politics. The question that most intrigues me is this: Did the Republicans fail to build an enduring majority after Ronald Reagan because they refused to replicate the Reagan model, or because that model was impossible to replicate without Mr. Reagan and the exigencies of his political moment?”
Schaller’s conclusion is uncertain, but he does feel that we haven’t seen a Republication acceptance speech since 1980 to match Reagan’s in Detroit.
The article, “30 Years Later, Reagan’s Words Echo,” ran July 12 in the Baltimore Sun.
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