Ragan was great at delivering his lines, in part because he would come to believe the script. It is cited as a will shiftin ragan's own career, as his famous speech tat he gave for barry goldwater on television during a few weeks before the 19 64 election. People sometimes see regan is just no kind of emptily parroting things, but he really came out of a movement.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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