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Reaganite

Reaganite

1 7.7
Having political ideas like Ronald Reagan's, especially conservative ones
  • adjective
  • /ˈreɪɡənaɪt/
translation icon : reaganista
  • Many in the party believe that returning to Reaganite principles will help unify their base and attract new voters.
  • Reaganite foreign policy
  • Neo-Reaganite
  • Reaganite foreign

If you want to use the kind of Reaganite approach.

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Examples

  • Paarlberg views this decrease as the result of a polarized policy context in which the left critically questions the fundamental benefits of the Green Revolution, while the right, Reaganite and Thatcherite market fundamentalists have argued that agricultural development should be left entirely to the private sector.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In particular, it's interesting to go back and look at articles written in the 70s and 80s, prior to the fall of the USSR and the rise of the Reaganite Conservatives, in terms of how they looked at history from a distinctly, notably different perspective and expectations.

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  • If you want to use the kind of Reaganite approach.

  • I think of the Reaganite Republican Party never really had a huge like grass roots base for it.

  • But four years from now, an Obama victory would have some benefits: it would make the nation more likely to recognize the mistakes of Democrat big government and would be more likely to lead the Republican Party back to its Reaganite roots.

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  • It was Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan and they wrote in the piece is called toward a neo Reaganite Foreign Policy.

  • In retrospect, Reagan's landslide defeat of Carter followed by his landslide reelection ushered in a generation of Reaganite dominance of national politics.

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  • Americana helps further the ever unsettled debate over America's role in the post-Cold War world ("Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," July/August 1996).

    Academic text (1996)
  • The new policies implemented by the administration demonstrated a clear Reaganite philosophy on economic growth.

  • The candidate's speech focused heavily on Reaganite ideals, emphasizing limited government and individual freedom.

Synonyms

Reaganesque
vsReaganite
1 8.8

Being hopeful, patriotic, and favoring smaller government like Ronald Reagan

is broader, relating to policies, ideas, or the era rather than style

How Reagan-like

Reaganite
1 7.7
conservative
4.6
liberal
983 4.4

Surface Forms

Reaganite positive

Morphology

Reaganite = Reagan (transparent) = Reagan + ite

Clear formation from the proper name 'Reagan' plus the productive suffix '-ite' that marks relation or followers, so the meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

Reaganite comes from Ronald Reagan's name and the ending -ite, which means 'related to' or 'follower of', as in Israelite. So, Reaganite describes ideas, policies, or a style that comes from or is like Ronald Reagan.