Ronald Reagan’s political views

• Federal vs UnitaryFederal 75%
  FederalUnitary

  Proposed a “New Federalism” to hand programmes back to the states, and said the states created the federal government.

• Nationalism vs InternationalismNationalism 60%
  NationalismInternationalism

  Announced the Strategic Defense Initiative in March 1983 as a shield the United States would build itself, and signed the INF Treaty with Gorbachev on 8 December 1987.

• Militarist vs PacifistMilitarist 72%
  MilitaristPacifist

  Raised defence spending sharply and ordered the 1983 invasion of Grenada, while holding to “peace through strength”.

• Assimilationist vs MulticulturalistAssimilationist 52%
  AssimilationistMulticulturalist

  Signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act on 6 November 1986, which gave legal status to people who had lived in the country since 1982 and made hiring undocumented workers illegal.

• Collectivize vs PrivatizePrivatize 82%
  CollectivizePrivatize

  Cut top income tax rates in 1981 and 1986, and said in his first inaugural that government is not the solution but the problem.

• Planned vs Laissez-faireLaissez-faire 82%
  PlannedLaissez-faire

  Ended federal price controls on oil in 1981 and loosened the rules on savings banks in 1982.

• Irreligious vs ReligiousReligious 68%
  IrreligiousReligious

  Called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in a speech to evangelicals, and backed a school-prayer amendment.

• Progressive vs TraditionalTraditional 70%
  ProgressiveTraditional

  Wrote an essay against abortion in 1983 and appealed to traditional family values.

No documented position, so not scored: Democratic vs Autocratic, Security vs Freedom, Isolationism vs Globalism, and Acceleration vs Bioconservative.