Craig here and his family. Zirin its great to see you. And we children and grandchildren if you hear wonderful applause, perhaps not the right moment, thats just a great sound of a granddaughter enjoying her grandfather. So lets celebrate that, too. So please join me in welcoming and our director of scholarly initiatives, dr. Anthony aims to lead the conversation here today on his new book, the search for reagan the appealing intellectual conservatism of Ronald Reagan. And his. Thanks group. Thank you. Thank all right. Well, this is good fun. Yes. And before i even get started on my questions, you all heard my boss. Just give me a task. You you met Ronald Reagan in 1978. We have to hear about that. Have to learn more about your first interaction with reagan. So i guess sure. I was a 21 year old snot nose kid. I was press secretary for a Us Senate Candidate in New Hampshire. But then Gordon Humphrey and i was the actually sixth Campaign Manager or the sixth president was hired by the ca
Craig here and his family. Zirin its great to see you. And we children and grandchildren if you hear wonderful applause, perhaps not the right moment, thats just a great sound of a granddaughter enjoying her grandfather. So lets celebrate that, too. So please join me in welcoming and our director of scholarly initiatives, dr. Anthony aims to lead the conversation here today on his new book, the search for reagan the appealing intellectual conservatism of Ronald Reagan. And his. Thanks group. Thank you. Thank all right. Well, this is good fun. Yes. And before i even get started on my questions, you all heard my boss. Just give me a task. You you met Ronald Reagan in 1978. We have to hear about that. Have to learn more about your first interaction with reagan. So i guess sure. I was a 21 year old snot nose kid. I was press secretary for a Us Senate Candidate in New Hampshire. But then Gordon Humphrey and i was the actually sixth Campaign Manager or the sixth president was hired by the ca
What units us voter is belief that the system is not on the level. Its rigged completely, completely against them and i think that when you realize that one of the number one indicators from an obama county to trump county the increase in Opioid Epidemic and you look at technological dislocation of jobs of artificial intelligence, i think that this will be the fault line that defines our politics and i think that the voters essentially hate both of these parties, they think they are a plague on the country and the one that they hate the most at any given hour is the one that they perceive to be in charge and so if you see a trump versus Elizabeth Warren, you will see legitimacy candidate for the presidency. I dont mean to filibuster. The democrats have become more urban and the republicans have become more rural and i think you have a totally disaffected suburban population in the country that isnt spoken to by by either party. Christian. Yes, so i agree with some of that and i think t
Panel, enlighten, provocative and its great harmer was its stability. At time when there are no civil discussions are very few going on for people with radically different views, a lot of respect so far. Im sure that will continue. One announcement by the way, so what on the last panel said thee president had met with the entire city to explain a strategy on north korea. I just got a little message. He met for 14 minutes with the entire senate he met for 14 minutes. So i dont know what that says about the last panel. Our final panel is on the future of the parties. And let me introduce people briefly. On my far left, no indication of ideology, Steve Schmidt come closer and privacy with the chief savages for the 2008 john mccain in 2004 george w. Bush president ial campaign and youve all seen him commenting rather wisely and about 2016 and beyond. Christian grose, a colleague, social professor of Political Science at usc, author of the awardwinning Book Congress in black and white, race
Panel, enlighten, provocative and its great harmer was its stability. At time when there are no civil discussions are very few going on for people with radically different views, a lot of respect so far. Im sure that will continue. One announcement by the way, so what on the last panel said thee president had met with the entire city to explain a strategy on north korea. I just got a little message. He met for 14 minutes with the entire senate he met for 14 minutes. So i dont know what that says about the last panel. Our final panel is on the future of the parties. And let me introduce people briefly. On my far left, no indication of ideology, Steve Schmidt come closer and privacy with the chief savages for the 2008 john mccain in 2004 george w. Bush president ial campaign and youve all seen him commenting rather wisely and about 2016 and beyond. Christian grose, a colleague, social professor of Political Science at usc, author of the awardwinning Book Congress in black and white, race