by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
It depends on whether you were part of it or viewed it through the eyes of the liberal media.
I was a part of the Reagan Revolution. Reagan adopted the Kemp-Roth bill and the supply-side policy it represented as his economic policy to cure stagflation. As I had written the bill and had built as a member of the Congressional staff support for it among House Republicans and Senate Republicans and Democrats, Reagan reasoned that I had a stake in his economic policy and would get it unmolested out of his administration so that Congress could vote on it.
Reagan explained to me that he had two goals. The first was to end the “stagflation” that forced the US economy to pay for economic growth with higher inflation. Once the US economy was repaired, Reagan’s second goal was to use the power of the US economy to end the Cold War.