With a POD anytime after January 1967 (after Reagan's ascension to the California Governorship), how do we get an LBJ vs Ronald Reagan election in 1968 and how would such a contest play out? And what would the succeeding administration look like? The New Deal coalition is fracturing in the aftermath of Civil Rights and amidst the ongoing war in Vietnam, riots in the streets of America's cities are exposing the limits of the Great Society, and the Republicans have just rebounded with a sweeping midterm victory.
I am interested to see what you think the dynamics will be in such a race between Johnson and Reagan, not only in terms of their stark ideological contrast as the respective champions of modern American liberalism and conservatism, but also in terms of their personalities and political styles? Who do you think will triumph and what kind of country will emerge from the tumult of the late 1960s?
I am interested to see what you think the dynamics will be in such a race between Johnson and Reagan, not only in terms of their stark ideological contrast as the respective champions of modern American liberalism and conservatism, but also in terms of their personalities and political styles? Who do you think will triumph and what kind of country will emerge from the tumult of the late 1960s?