The Rise of the Right From Reagan to Trump | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2020
- Historian and journalist Rick Perlstein has been called the “chronicler extraordinaire of American conservatism.” His new book "Reaganland" is the latest in a series exploring how conservative politics came to dominate America. This installment retraces Ronald Reagan's path to the White House. The author speaks with Walter Isaacson about how this sequence of events led to the current political climate in America.
Originally aired on August 28, 2020.
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Like radical Islam, the Religious Right is more political than spiritual.
the importance of the race war to communism, from 1969 and 1980's
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@Hugo Holesch "Trotskyists" isn't a word. The correct term is "Trotskyite" and it has nothing to do with Dems, who do not seek dictatorship. OTOH the GOP and its useful idiots (look in the mirror) is actively trying to destroy American democracy. The degenerate failure in the WH is a clear and present danger. Your ignorance reveals why.
It is how their brains are wired and it shapes the religion rather than the religion shaping them. Sam Harris has that wrong. With the president so far right they just go more to the right. Like King Lear, if the king is mad so are his subjects. (Trump has Cluster B personality disorder. One has to have concern over those who are attracted to that.)
@@taterkaze9428 Well said
I well remember the 1980 election. It cast me into a mood of deep depression. As a progressive gay man, it felt as if a rug had been pulled out from beneath my feet. This became worse with the rise of Newt Gingrich. That movement has now degenerated into something unpredictable, a neo fascist wave, which threatens our core values. The election of 2020 is the most crucial since 1860 and I fear, may well be the death blow of the Republic.
I suppose one does not have to be a gay man to say "wait, wait, that is not right, this is just dangerous"; I was not born here neither did I grow up here but I remember watching the debate between Carter and Reagan and I knew I was for President Carter. I was really disappointed when I learned later on that he did not get reelected. I think there is sustentative chemistry difference between conservative and progressive individuals. The difference has become quite distinct and so frustrating and depressing to see.
Progressives in general are not afraid to speak up and stand up for the rule of law! I am so proud of them.
I've been believing and saying for years the GOP with and under Reagan really kicked off this road to darkness, but it's not something most people are willing to accept.
True. Cause they voted for it. Americans have been voting themselves out of existence since saint Ronnie Reagan . Nice job.
Well, much of the audience isn't old enough to remember him.
You are correct sir. I was there before him. We have never recovered from the swing to the right that he set in motion.
I've been saying that for years and I'm not even American
GoGreen1977 As a white young woman in Orange County, California I registered to vote as a Republican because that’s what everyone else was doing. However, the very first time I saw Reagan on television a shiver went down my spine and I became really scared. The next day at college I registered as a Democrat and never looked back. I hated Reagan and his ilk to the bone. I voted for Carter.
I was a victim of Reagan's Kool-Aid....I fell for his sh t, Hook Line and Sinker. I just am unable to understand what tRump has to offer his supporters...What do they see in him that I cannot? What does tRump do for them? Are "they" better off today than 2016? Is this the world his supporters what to live in? This reminds me of Bedford Falls vs. Potters Field in It's a Wonderful Life.
We are rapidly becoming Potters Field or tRump Field; one and the same.
Trump has fox news. All news is fake except fox according to him and Fox says trump is great.
@@garyoa1 that's the weapon that Nixon lacked. If Walter Cronkite went on your TV every night to say Nixon was being rail roaded, we would have a very different world right now.
They share narrow mindedness
He tells them they are right to be angry and resentful. He shifts all the blame to others and the "left". When in fact the DNC only bears partial blame. (That's the one question Mr. Perlstein dodged). Meanwhile the GOP aggressively transfers wealth to the super wealthy.
Same reason people followed Hitler. It’s literally exactly the same reason. Even the people who say “I’m not racist I just like his policies”
Yes: Reagan won the racist vote and the racist pro-war "Christian" vote.
Distract 'em with a smile and a promise while stabbing 'em in the back.
Republican under Reagan: Tear down the walls!
Republican under Trump: Build the walls!
Republican under Reagan: Make sure the super-wealthy get wealthier and the benefits will trickle down to the losers on the bottom. (Still waiting on that promise!)
Republican under Trump: Fuck the losers on the bottom!
Working class Americans: Either way, we get fucked
It would serve Americans greatly to hear this interview. People don’t take the time to do the research necessary to make political choices that work for our current society.
Im afraid that will not work, they would rather believe an orange cretin who has never read a book let alone written one who just makes stuff up to fit the bill of whatever he is "thinking" at the time and has no problem or shame when he was found to be lying, almost half the Country is OK with what happened in the capitol based largely on this idiots "word" alone.
As someone who has lived long enough to watch the right rise , this is excellent.
Yeah -- "scheduling screw-up". Reagan was never shy about his racism; he only hid it better than other Republicans of the time.
And what was behind Reagan's anger"/ Fear -- of being exposed as the racist he was.
"Gov't is the problem" -- Reagan. The Founders had the OPPOSITE view: we call them Founders because they FOUNDED gov'ts.
"...weaponizing fear...", one of the worst things, vintage Trump...
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@@AstroSquid Do you seriously think people are going to watch this given the obvious agenda? Projection has become an art with the right.
@@IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS Well I'm on the left and projection is all I see over here from the left. I gave up on any real news from major networks. That video is from 1986.
I've got more from 1945, from an american.
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Reagan’s anti-government rhetoric laid the groundwork for today’s fear-based Republican party.
Reagan easily slipped into bed with the huge rich coperations. He was bought. It was a match made in hell.
I'm 65 and remember every one of the Reagan years (waiting hopelessly ever since for the trickle-down economy to work for hard-working people from working class and lower middle class families). I never understood the fascination Americans (including my own parents) had with him. I watched him speak every time his speeches wee broadcast, trying to figure out why this palpably not intelligent man had captured the minds of America. Perhaps this is the biggest way in which television HAS been a detriment to our society. Two has-been TV personalities have been the 2 worst presidents in my lifetime. Reagan was a B actor with a string of low quality movies and TV shows and Trump is a bankrupt developer who started one of the most boring and idiotic "reality" TV shows in history. Go figure - the GOP put both in the WH.
@@lanitagrice7644 Both were backed by Evangelical Christians, yet both were the only divorced presidents with remarriage and children with all the wives.
@@lanitagrice7644 He fed their egos like trump does and like it was said here, he removed their guilt and told them they were already morally superior. That feeling did not hinge on any accomplishment or effort and absolved them of the need to be better people ethically. It was a letting go of emotional baggage, insecurities, and responsibilities they didn't otherwise want to work through.
Bought and paid for
General Electric supported and groomed him.
Sure the ideology came from that era. But the slow dismantling of american checks and balances is what led to DT. Foreign money and rich American billionaire funds creates the circus of confusion.
Delaying the release of hostages from Iran until after the election helped.
This was a really good discussion about the downward trajectory of conservative politics.
Winthrop: "we must abridge ourselves of our superfluities so that the necessities of all may be met."
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Conservatism has long been a drag on this country. I would argue that we have gained nothing by embracing conservative ideology.
I enjoy this interviewer. He asks thoughtful questions
This was excellent. His book will be good.
really enjoyed this discuss, thank you. wide ranging historical perspective.
So well said, profound truth. I have been trying to understand the GOP. This is helpful in many ways. Thank you!
Lorio - if you want a real eye-opener on what's made your country the way it is, read " The End Of The Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" by Greg Grandin. For the past few years I've read extensively trying to understand what's going on over there, and this book pretty much answered all the questions I had.
Maybe Reagan's charm is in Acting
Susan Shepard ya think?
Susan Shepard The brainwashing started with him.
For Pity's sake, neoliberalism (the most recent push) came from the Conservatives at the Chicago School of Economics and that was seized upon by neo-cons and conservatives and democrats who didn't want to lose middle American and moderate republican voters, which is why the democratic party listed to the right and why recent Democratic presidents have been moderate republicans in democratic clothing. Of course, the Party of No compromise, which came into being ala Gingrich, ate their own moderate republicans. And now, Reagan would likely be considered a RINO or a liberal if he was on the scene with a different name. So people on the left rail against the wealth gap, wage theft, the destruction of opportunity, and the right? Tyranny is having to sell wedding cakes to gap couples.
Brilliant observation
gay * and agreed! 🙂
How do you de program people en masse? These people won’t accept reality
What did it take to deprogram a country full of Nazi supporters?
Amanpour you especially excel because you allow your interviewees to speak in length.
Great interview. Kurt Andersen “ Evil Geniuses, the Unmaking of America “, is the short form, fills in the blanks of above interview.
Jimmy Carter was and is an honest man. Humble and true. If that's a fault in our society so
be it. God bless you and keep you Mr. President Carter. You don't know me but I hope to meet you on the other side. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall
be called the children of God.
So we have to develop an understanding for US fascism according to the interviewer?
Amanpour should be on all MSM news outlets. PBS doesn't reach enough people.
It took me 3 years to get here, but boy was this guy right. Good interview Walter!
Yet another in-depth and informative interview on this program. Thanks!
What it really is our society sinking into materialism and greed and selfishness in general..so busy thinking of ourselves we don't think about anybody else,and refuse to think about consequences..
Im downloading his book right now, what a smart man
Very good parallel between Reagan and Trump in the Republican Party.
I would have loved to hear how women's rights movement played a role in this. I am an immigrant arriving in 90s and yet whatever I have read tells me that the movement played a key role in shaping the politics of that era.
Right wing uses fear to motivate people. Left wing use hope and optimism
Both use fear. Only difference is the enemy
Plz, plz adjust your sound. It is scaled about 5 paces less than the other channels and I cannot hear it!!!
The conservative rise drove me out, 1993 I went blue. Conservatives have been poising the American dream.
Insurance prices and coverage insanity. Tort reform NFW. Term limits no way. Trump unbelievable.
The swamp is now a lake.
Absolutely great and insightful, thank u👏✌
Excellent interview, very informative. TY.
... great speaker, learned more on many levels in a fraction of the time/density of text compared to most others i can think of right now ...
LA Times writer Ron Brownstein outlines typologies for current American politics as sorting into two major categories: 1) A coalition of restoration and 2) A coalition of transformation in his November 1 article "How the 2020's could be as dangerous as the 1850's."
Lovely, just lovely. Thank you for all your hard work. 👏👏👏👏👂👂🐶😎👍
Subscribed because of this.
always informative and even-keel journalism
Suzanne Batinovic I don’t know. Walt looked rather red faced by the end.
Great interview
Interviewer should have a glass of Reagan Kool Aid at hand.
It's always about maintaining the status quo. Never about change. Somehow, if we improve the quality of life for people who are perceived to be beneath my socio-economic status, they may get ahead of me, and we have to prevent that at all costs. It's ok for me to want to move up; it's not ok for anyone else.
Great discussion 🏌️♂️...
Excellent interview....
I cannot understand why Trump is blaming Biden for all the horror that has happened on his watch. Does he know he is the incumbent and not the challenger. ??? From NZ I wish Mr Biden and his running mate a mighty success in November. Betty Whitfield.
The Robertson quote at the beginning doesn’t make any sense when applied to Trump. So what’s the point?
Maybe that evangelicals could support a crook if they get what they want- and they do, and they have (judges)
It's funny, about that Pat Roberson quote. We haven't had much "turmoil under an honest man." We've had a lot of semi-stable government under crooks. But we've recently had abject turmoil under a crook. I guess Robertson didn't see that one coming.
Fascinating review of the last half-century's Presidents.
Excellent!
I should be "From Goldwater to Trump"
They love to rehab Regan's image. He kicked off his campaign with state's rights, but "he didn't really want to". 🙄🙄
Good job
The GOP's first actor.
I said when the working class of union men and women voted for Reagan "they sat down on their lunchpails and shit in them" . I was right and the American union right did just that. They just did not understand what they where doing.
I votes for Ronald Reagan my 1st vote 40 years ago. Just like Jefferson could have made our country better by pushing for his version of the founding document which attacked slavery as immoral but he decided that morals were not as important as a compromise that hurt fellow Americans.
So this is the same with Reagan. For this guy to say Reagan was uncomfortable with the speech does not hold water because his recorded conversation with President Nixon proved he was comfortable with calling Black Africans monkeys. It slipped right off his tongue.
Reagan lost me when he was against South African sanctions and MLK holiday.
White Conservatives have never been good for Black people over our history.
The interviewer then blames Democrats?
This idea that it is about economics is just silly. It is obviously about race and educated people.
Trump obviously started out with racist attitudes toward Mexicans and the people who wanted someone like that salivated at a racist president who believed the same conspiracies they did. Trump is just the Monster, the Republican Party is Dr. Frankenstein who creates him. They are complicit.
My brother I am not really surprised by me being the only one that gives you a thumbs up. In my humble opinion and I am probably just around your age. I was serving in the military during the Reagan’s years. And I can remember Reagan giving amnesty to 12 million illegals to this country. Not one peep from White Conservatives because they were going to be exploited for their low wage work. I can remember Reagan and the Airline pilots Union and Reagan forcing them to break their strike and go back to work. I can remember Reagan introducing reduction in our military and not a peep from white conservatives. But these same White Racists Conservatives was all about destroying Black families by introducing Crack into our neighborhoods to fund their illegal wars. Locking Black people up for marijuana while whites was all Coke up and seen no sentencing. The Democrats didn’t do any justice for African Americans as well with Biden 2.0 version of his crime bill superseding Reagan’s the Three strike you out law mainly pertaining to African Americans regardless how trivial the crime may have been. Evangelicals are white hypocrites who are 99% racist. I worked with this white lady who claimed to be a Christian. And when the tapes came out of Trump bragging about assaulting women because he is rich. I asked her why do she support him? She didn’t have an answer of course...but she wasn’t the brightest and I knew the answer. Abortion.....yes...she would have voted for Satan himself because of abortion. Mainly WHITE ABORTION....white babies being terminated. Don’t let them fool you....White Christian care about White babies and every other non white lives doesn’t matter. Just my observation through the years....this country is heading downward due to the Inequality, Injustices, Ill Informed Uneducated White Racist that did drugs or drank away his life. And those African Americans who somehow succeeded get a crumb of the American dream through all the obstacles is somehow the reason for this white person failures. Always the OTHER is to be blame. I can remember a white girl in Texas suing the college because a African American got admitted. She blamed affirmative action....now here is where it doesn’t make sense. This white girl walks into a class of 30 students. Lets say 25 of the students are white and 4 are Asians....and that 1 Black student in this privileged young girl’s mind is that the Black student is the person that took her spot in the classroom. Not one of the 25 whites or the Asians.....but the African Americans student. And that mentality is why this country is failing and why Trump was elected.
@j c : I am sorry 500 hundred years is more than enough time to see all people who family been here since the 1600s as AMERICANS. Whites believe RACISM should TRUMP all than being an AMERICAN. We hold that torch up to the world bragging about it shining light. But WE who live through this AMERICA know it is just as dim as those TRAITORS who desegregated the Capital by smearing feces and urinating all throughout the building. After all that African Americans been through in this country and continue to go through. Never once did WE gather and thought about a coup. Not once.....but don’t worry they already talking about forgiving these Traitors. I tell you this if they were Black people who did this. We would be exile from society and label as terrorists for the rest of our lives and our future children’s lives. These people had 400 hundred years..... Maybe you can help me understand this....In my life I had passed through some small towns. The population would be 98% White and not a black person in sight. You would think it is white utopia but for some strange reason these are not HAPPY. They are consumed with Black people....black people this....black people that. And they rarely see a black person unless they are stopping for gas to get the HELL out of there. What is wrong with those people? Never happy......you got your white town, your white local government but yet their failures is black people’s fault. Insane.....truly INSANE.
We don't need anymore comfort and ease. We need actions that reign in the corporate control of our country. Ronald Reagan was of a different time, we today are at a crossroads that not even Reagan could comprehend. Trump has failed in cleaning up the swamp, but Reagan helped create it, along with every corporate lackey president since, including those warmongers Clinton, Obama and Bush.
Reagan's "Morning in America" sunlight ads -- search for them here, it's literally what they were -- are exactly equivalent to what Derek Black said he did in another interview on this show: he made racism and patriarchy look pleasant by promoting it in sanitized language, without using racial slurs. Reagan made it look palatable by coating it with a sunny, golden glow. The spoonful of sugar makes poison more palatable as well as medicine.
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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It's not surprising that a guy like Pat Robertson doesn't understand democracy. Democracy is messy and chaotic, but it's the only way that we can maintain peaceful consensus.
From: 'ME' to 'YOU' - More 'CONSERVATIVE', More 'NON-DEMOCRATIC'; if 'YOU' are More 'PROGRESSIVE', 'DEMOCRATIC THINKING' will be for 'THEM', and 'ME'...'!!!'
Did he say SNAY-foo? SNAFU traditionally has a short A.
Quick Summary of the movie, "McConnell's Beast Island"
McConnell can't control the strange wild beast he created on the REPUBLICAN BEAST ISLAND; well, the beast McConnell created, ate him alive & then they begin to fight each other to become the new leader of the island until finally there's only one Republican beast left & because he can't handle the loneliness, he swims to another island & trys to pass himself off as a native of that island, the "let's just get along Democratic island", but they recognize him as dangerous & they banish him from their island; then the Republician beast went back to his island & endured the remainder of his USELESS, LONELY life in which he progressively lost his mine before he died a CRUEL & JUSTIFIABLE death.
I love this movie! How about you?
He also broke the unions and disbanded the Fairness Doctrine.
This explains so much behind the conservative psyche!
I just have to comment on the quotable quote of one of the most infamous leaders of False Religion, Pat Robertson. What he is advocating here by saying "God wants stability. It's better to have a stable government under a crook than turmoil under an honest man." is the notion expressed by the Israelites in 1 Samuel 8:6 But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us." this displeased Samuel.
When Samuel later relayed this request to Jehovah this was Jehovah's response, "This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
Long story short we are today "Crying out for relief" from people like Pat Robertson, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Lindsay Graham, etc. And the answer to our pleas has nothing to do with asking for yet another crook as King.
So here we are all those years later with false religion leaders like Pat Robinson disobeying Jehovah's instructions to stay out of politics actually running for President! And, worse yet, we wind up with actual President's like Donald Trump who has virtually violated every one of the Ten Commandments and, worse yet, brags about doing so! Now that Trump has gone down in infamy one of the most likely Republican candidates for President, Ted Cruz, has been described by no less an authority on earthly corruption than Republican ex Speaker of The House John Boehner as "Lucifer in the flesh!"
I agree. Different in character these two men, but as I've said before, Trump is the logical conclusion to Reagan.
I've always blamed reagan for the current state of affairs in this country .
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Racial hatred and resentment deserves no understanding.....EVER!!
The “shining city on the hill” referred to John Winthrop’s vision of his people (the Massachusetts Bay Colony) striving to be an enlightened model of Reformed Protestestantism lead by a highly educated group of clerics. He believed it only shone when the city strove to be a model and that it would cease shining if the people failed to adhere to What was expected of them from God. It was not an endowed lighting but an earned one.
Look up Operation Coffee Cup. You can hear Reagan.
Walter Isaacson saying "Shouldn't the left respect and maybe even understand the fears of the right" (I"m paraphrasing) in late August 2020 did not age well (see the Capitol Riot catalyzed by Trump on January 6, 2021).
Yeah, I could see how uncomfortable Reagan was when he talked about the non-existent "Cadillac driving welfare queen" and the "young buck" who was buying steaks with his food stamps........
It appears that for decades Conservatism has equaled Enslavement Of The Minds & Body’s Of The Working Poor.
Liberalism embraces Freedom, Justice And Equality For The Working Poor.
Ain’t no working class. We have the working poor!
I remember when Christians knocked on your door and invited you to church instead of using political action to tell you what to do.
Reagan was just slightly left of Biden. How times have changed.
I am a little uncomfortable with this author's response to Walter's question RE the amount of blame assignable to the liberal element for the rise of the Radical Right. There is a difference between looking down and discriminating against blacks and not allowing the "unconnected" to join a fraternity but I'm not all that sure it's that great. And while it's fine to help people adjust to social change it's important to allow them to earn a decent living at a job given respect during the adjusting period. Even a cursory glance around the American economy today reveals bicycles retailing at $6,000 plus, cars retailing for $100,000 plus being constantly "out of stock" and sunglasses going for upwards of $300 while at the same time those "left behind" are homeless, totally without the means of paying for medical care, and looked down upon by the "winners" who in Anand Giridharadas words are "taking all." I'm not saying that liberals and those to the left of Biden are totally or evenl largely responsible for all this, but I am saying that they are far from blameless!
Jimmy Carter was a wonderful president
Ronny Ray-Gunz WAS Once a "DEMOCRAT" and "UNIONIST" when he was an actor! He was ONCE the head of the Actor's Union.
THEN When he was courting Nancy... Her FATHER Who was a BIG CORPORATE OIL OLIGARCH and HE too Ronny aside and said to him...
'If you want to marry my daughter... you have GOT to get on the Band Wagon! And I can teach you this and make you ALOT OF MONEY!
And Ronny became THE TOP CORPORATE SHILL in America! And eventually He did away with "Tuition Free Collages" and "County Hospitals and Clinics" and REALLY Went after Unions and and Working People!
The main difference between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump was/is Reagan was a successful actor who barely passed the IQ test and Donald Trump is a failed actor whose proudest accomplishment was being able to memorize and recite "Person,” “woman,” “man,” “camera,” “TV." Not for nothing was Trump known as the "useful idiot!" P.S. I hate to say this but there is a rumor circulating that Trump actually only got as far as "Person, woman" before being unable to recite further...you have got to see some symbolism in that.
Reagan became senile in office and Trump has too or something. But Reagan was so much more likable and kind (I think).
I was 10 in 1985 and back then I thought Reagan and America were the best thing ever. Childhood ignorance being my only excuse. I can see how they keep falling for the con.
Let's re write history, shall we? I remember Lee Atwater, willie Horton's, welfare queens, blue collar workers discarded by the thousands in leverage buyouts, a national debt more than all previous debt, illegal interference in Salvador leaving 10s of thousands dead, and to top it off : whole hearted support for south africa apartheid system.
Oh yes, Ronald reagan.
He was an actor, yet people seem to think he was really not acting.
This could also be called "The fall of America".
Reagan has been overrated. I remember too well the economic hardships we endured during his presidency.
Hogwash. Conservatives are what Americans have always been but more tolerant. We are very like the people who fought two world wars and defeated the nazis and fascists.
Reagan gave birth to The rise of Fascism
....when a so-called "evangelist" directly contradicts what the Bible says😡😡😡
Do not whitewash Reagan. He was a terrible president. In our day he was just as alarming as Trump.
Two words - Christian Fascism
Why does Walter Isaacson's face scare me so.....?
Because he doesn't blink?
Aww... he was uncomfortable with open racism but ok with it ultimately...