Great pleasure for me at the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to this afternoons event to celebrate the publication of the new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of blue collar conservativism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aeis election watch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006, and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. People with a technical, vocational or Community College education. This group was large, about a third of voters, and had near perfect track record of voting for the winner in president ial elections. This looselydefined group, roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in our politics. In the book henry shows how reagans preferences matched those of working class americans, transcending left and
Great pleasure for me at the Brookings Institution to welcome all of you and our cspan audience to this afternoons event to celebrate the publication of the new book, the working class republican Ronald Reagan and the return of blue collar conservativism. Henry is a senior fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center, a former aei colleague and a member in Good Standing of aeis election watch team. Henry arrived at aei in 2006, and we soon bonded over politics and especially what was then a somewhat obscure demographic, what the pollsters called some college. People with a technical, vocational or Community College education. This group was large, about a third of voters, and had near perfect track record of voting for the winner in president ial elections. This looselydefined group, roughly synonymous with the working class, was and is especially important in our politics. In the book henry shows how reagans preferences matched those of working class americans, transcending left and
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With elections coming up in Israel, “Bibi” Netanyahu is under special scrutiny. Often, I find the scrutiny to be superficial.
When I first came to Israel, I saw Israeli politics in black and white. Netanyahu was part of the black. At the time, the leading political issue here was whether Israel should withdraw all of the Jews, including the soldiers, from Gaza. Both Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, hardly a liberal, and Netanyahu were members of Likud. Sharon proposed withdrawal from Gaza; Netanyahu, in contrast, argued that, if Israel did so, the Palestinians would use it as a base from which to attack Israel. We liberals poo pooed Netanyahu and supported Sharon, who left Likud,