Ike had good mentors:
Given how far the U.S. had sunk, it needed radicalism to ... -AS
Sounds like I'm hearing a Margaret Thatcher clone, "So deep had the rot set in, my little possums, that we had to give enema".
The only "radicalism" from the Reagan era that was necessary was the first two years, via Mr. P. Volker. The rest - ERTA [author], TEFRA, TRA - the whole lot, a mixed bag. Unless, by "radicalism" you meant more of George W. Bush. The TRA of 1986 cut taxes while Reagan was getting the largest defense spending increases in history - sound familiar?
