What is Clintonism?
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/25/what-is-clintonism
Reaganism took hold almost immediately upon the turn in capitalism’s trajectory. Thus Jimmy Carter was America’s first Reaganite president. But Carter only got on the track half-heartedly, and not before the final years of his presidency.
Reagan was not even the most important Reaganite leader in the early days. That dubious honor falls to Margaret Thatcher. It was within the government she led in Great Britain that Reaganite theory and practice fully took shape.
This is why, in the Anglophone world outside the United States, Reaganism is called “Thatcherism.”
Americans are too provincial to follow suit, but this isn’t the only reason for naming the phenomenon after the Gipper. Since the end of the Second World War, Britain has been America’s junior partner — unable, on its own, to lead a change in the course of world events. Even the Iron Lady could not have done all the harm she did had we Yankees not helped her out.
And so, Reaganism it is.
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“Bushism” is (...) a non-starter, no matter which Bush one has in mind. “Clintonism,” however, is something else.
The term has been in circulation for some time. People know how to use it because, as Justice Potter Stewart said of obscenity, you know it when you see it.