“... And like so much about Trump, ‘peace through strength’ is the legacy of a past US president: Ronald Reagan.Trumpian foreign policy has distinctive features, but they are hardly aberrations. The MAGA Republicans are for swinging their weight around in Latin America. Like the Democrats, Trump’s allies believe that the US is in the middle of a second ...”

“... black leader they wished to emplace by these means. It was Samuel Pierce, later to be Ronald Reagan’s ultra-corrupt Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, greeted by the sinister cretin Reagan on one occasion with the salute (to the only black member of his own Cabinet): ‘And how are things in ...”

“... already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as ‘an unblinking look’ at their subjects – which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed. To this end, she has spent four years interviewing eight hundred ...”

“... who favoured the idea of a ‘living constitutionalism’, got off more lightly. One of them, Ronald Dworkin (who had conveniently died in 2013), was even enlisted in Vermeule’s common-good project. Dworkin had understood the importance of identifying the morality underlying a constitution; the problem was that his view of morality was liberal. Contrary ...”

“... has invoked the need for both stimulus and security in order to rationalise a return to Reagan’s old formula of imperial adventure, tax cuts for the rich and increases in military spending. But the proposed elimination of the tax on dividends isn’t aimed at raising demand any more than the war on Iraq, and its associated expenditure on ...”

“... in interrogation policy in a memo to Bush in 2002, had impugned the protocol, while serving in the Reagan administration, in a National Interest article in 1985. It relies on a principle that Feith stressed in his interview with Sands – namely, reciprocity. Protocol II makes clear that the provisions apply to armed groups locally powerful enough to be held ...”

“... it was hoped, even those at the bottom of the heap would have enough for a decent life. Even under Reagan, supply-siders reached for the rhetoric of ‘trickledown’ to justify corporate tax breaks. And modern ‘sufficientarians’, who agree that policy should aim at getting everyone up to a minimum threshold rather than at full equality, also think growth ...”

“... family, the Kellys, who came to Boston from Ireland before the Second World War. Eileen married Ronald Charles Spahr of Philadelphia, the son of German immigrants, and in the late 1950s the couple moved to a three-bedroom colonial house in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which is fairly close to Philadelphia. Everyone you ask speaks of the Spahrs as a classic ...”