Les démocrates face au reaganisme

The democrats and reaganism. From the start, Reaganism wanted to mean rejection of American-style liberalism, which since the New Deal had been associated with the Democratic Party, presented as the defender of the Welfare State - high taxes, red tape, interventionism. Since 1980, neo-liberalism, an informal political trend within the Democratic Party, has been trying to redefine the role of the federal government, which should devote itself more to leading and stimulating - mainly through its tax policy - than to directing and imposing its will. The defeat of W. Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in the presidential election of 1984, induced the Party to adopt more neo-liberal or centrist policy, which led to the nomination of Dukakis as candidate in the 1988 presidential election. Dukaki's defeat means both setback for neo-liberalism, which failed to produce credible alternative to liberalism, and the failure of man who proved unable to respond adequately to the defamatory antiliberal campaign waged by his Republican challenger, G. Bush

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