>> so help me god. >> the new president was promising big changes, even starting the world anew. reagan's inaugural truly signaled a great clash of ideas. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> and the new republic was right in the midst of it. >> well, it was overwhelmingly liberal. the writers were the best of that era. i was still a democrat at the time, a traditional liberal democrat, a great society liberal, but i was pretty hard lined on the soviets. it's hard for people to believe now, but the democratic party had a very powerful wing that was very anti-soviet. >> but those democrats were a dying breed, and krauthammer found himself agreeing more with president reagan than with his liberal readers. >> i ended up supporting just about every element of the reagan foreign policy, and boy, did we get reaction from our liberal readership.