更重要的是，他在任上开启了来自政治右翼的“革命 ” — —不利于穷人、环境和科技的“革命 ” ， 这场“革命”持续了三十年，随后的各届总统 — — 老布什、克林顿、小布什 — — 或多或少都从某些角度支持里根的思想，奥巴马在第一个任期内也不例外。
More important, his presidency began a “revolution” from the political right – against the poor, the environment, and science and technology – that lasted for three decades, its tenets upheld, more or less, by all who followed him: George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and, in some respects, by Obama in his first term.