Regan's Indirection of the Federal Government

Ragan was trying to delegitimize liberalism, the liberal impulse of spending moneya doing all the things at were that were creating the economic problems. He knew he couldn't direct, he couldn't confront congress directly. But in the aran contra and in the way in which the executive branch was being run, you had in regensturn. In his first inoguent, he says, government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the proble. Now that resinaded, in a way, it really scared liberalis, because they they were losing on that battle. And that's when they started going back really, to calling themselves what they were at the beginning