yount to tell all of nothing could be further from the truth about how easy conservatism was in 1980' they resisted ronald reagan every step of the way. night live mocked him, they said he hated gay people, intelligentsia opposed reagan's tax cuts and smeared good and energetic man like attorney general ed meese. when it mattered that supreme court was going to did the balance of the court, they tried to destroy and ultimately derailed robert bork. this and ronald reagan is going they had noworld, nukes conferences all over the world saying he was going to lunch the first strike against the former soviet union. he was going to start world war iii. developed 80's we had a strong economy, a strong military, a strong sense of purpose. but we still had a group in hollywood, entertainment industry, and on the left and politics and the culture, even in the churches, were infuriated by reagan's success. it was no cakewalk in the 1980's. it was a daily struggle and constant battle. it was a battle over policy, philosophy, ideas, in view of and whatca is now should be in the future. thinking,