Autre topo sur l'impact de Margaret Thatcher sur la politique américaine.
"Thatcher, who succumbed to a stroke Monday at 87, arguably impacted the course of American politics more than any other elected foreign leader in modern times. Along with her comrade-in-arms Ronald Reagan, the former British Prime Minister ushered in a free market consensus in the 1980s and 1990s that liberals eventually concluded had to be accommodated not thwarted.
“She staked out an anti-government position and anti-union position in British politics which was quite a dramatic departure from what the UK had been used to since World War II,” said former Vice President Walter Mondale in an interview. “And her example excited a lot of support for similar efforts here in the United States. I think now it’s finally changing some, but for the better part of two or three decades that was the dominant, abiding political philosophy that seemed that resonate in our country.” Charles Krauthammer, now a conservative columnist, saw it from the perspective of a Cold War Democrat at the time.
“Thatcher came in two years before Reagan and it had a tremendous effect on us because for Ronald Reagan himself and those supporting him, her example in a much more far-left country and an even more sclerotic economy really sent a message that it can be done,” said Krauthammer.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-remarkable-us-legacy-89761.html?hp=t1_3
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