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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Race between two populist control freaks, a freedom loving and greeny but we have a spinoff of a sitcom. Threes company. There is the three of them. A race between donald trump, Hillary Clinton. Its become the gropers. If you came and knocked on my dire would probably call the police. Both campaigns sprinting in the race to the bottom as they sprain their fingers pointing to their opponents. And since we are so close to election day, i think we should employ the 7030 rule. When there is less than 30 days left you should not believe 70 of what comes out of either campaign. Democrats think trump is hitler and republicans think clinton is kim jongun. Now when a majority of focus is on buggery its hard to have a rational conversation about freedom and debt service when they are talking about who is more likely to unsheath their privates to a group of school girls on a school bus tour. Its these two mainstream meatheads, how about they jam their tongues down the growth of some spreadsheets
Control freaks, a freedom loving and greeny but we have a spinoff of a sitcom. Threes company. There is the three of them. A race between donald trump, Hillary Clinton. Its become the gropers. If you came and knocked on my dire would probably call the police. Both campaigns sprinting in the race to the bottom as they sprain their fingers pointing to their opponents. And since we are so close to election day, i think we should employ the 7030 rule. When there is less than 30 days left you should not believe 70 of what comes out of either campaign. Democrats think trump is hitler and republicans think clinton is kim jongun. Now when a majority of focus is on buggery its hard to have a rational conversation about freedom and debt service when they are talking about who is more likely to unsheath their privates to a group of school girls on a school bus tour. Its these two mainstream meatheads, how about they jam their tongues down the growth of some spreadsheets so they can finds out what