A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
There is no pure free-market economy.
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States' policies of one hundred years ago, but then they always blame America first.