The 80s was the last formative decade for US politics. You'd be hard pressed to say for any good, but it certainly defined the future. The New Deal coalition, having shaped politics for the previous half-century was in dissolution, heading to oblivion. Its politics had been personified by Franklin Roosevelt, who in his 1936 Democratic Acceptance Speech said,
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Style It Takes
Style It Takes
The 80s was the last formative decade for US politics. You'd be hard pressed to say for any good, but it certainly defined the future. The New Deal coalition, having shaped politics for the previous half-century was in dissolution, heading to oblivion. Its politics had been personified by Franklin Roosevelt, who in his 1936 Democratic Acceptance Speech said,