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Ronald Reagan

US President, 1981 to 1989

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Cut taxes, deregulated and expanded the military, then negotiated arms reductions with Mikhail Gorbachev as the Cold War wound down.

Ronald Reagan sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and slightly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly strength-first on war and peace and strongly interventionist on interventionism.

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Where Ronald Reagan sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authoritySlightly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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People furthest from Ronald Reagan

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Political views closest to Ronald Reagan

Thatcherism and ReaganismFree-market economics, tax cuts, deregulation and a firm stance toward the Soviet Union.99%FusionismBlends free-market and small-government ideas with traditional social values and a…99%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…89%Religious rightSeeks to shape law and politics by religious, often Christian, values.88%

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