Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

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Rick Perlstein was a contemporary American historian and journalist. Rick Perlstein is an American historian, writer and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the post-1960s American conservative movement. The author of five bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence

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