Serious readers. Good afternoon, everyone. Im Karlyn Bowman and its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to the saponins event to celebrate the publication of henry olsons new book the working class republican Ronald Reagan the return of buecollar conservatism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of apis election launch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006 and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic with the pollsters called some college come people with the technical vocational or committee College Education pick this group was a large, but onethird of voters and had a nearperfect track record of voting for the winter in president ial elections. This loosely defined group, roughly synonymous with the workingclass, wasnt it is especially important in our politics. In the book and ray shows how reagans preferences match those of
I write in response to a guest column by Dr. Joe Anderson (“Public health response to gun violence demands reflection, bold action,” Feb. 11). The Lewiston mass shooting is of concern to everyone, and we all hope and pray there is never a repeat. There were safeguards in place, which could have prevented this horrific […]