Reagan's World Revisited
Republican Fears and Fantasies from the Cold War to the Culture War
These two satirical representations of the world from the perspective of Ronald Reagan were created by David Horsey, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist.
The 1987 version includes many of the same elements and updates by replacing Brezhnev with Gorbachev and adding portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Daniel Ortega and Muammar Qaddafi.
The maps use a pictorial style to depict the United States and the Soviet Union as wildly out of scale with the rest of the world, reflecting the Cold War tensions and rivalries between the two superpowers.
Reagan, dressed as a cowboy, stands on a huge California, while his Soviet counterpart, either Brezhnev or Gorbachev, wears a bear skin and stands on a massive U.S.S.R. The two leaders are ready to draw their guns at any moment.
It was a different world - the Communists were in Russia and California was a Republican stronghold. Only slight reference to gay rights and environmental issues. No mention of Critical Race Theory, or Jewish space lasers.
Both maps are found in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: 1982 Map | 1987 Map
Perfect analogy of adjusting the narrative to suit the time. I lived through these times, from post WWII, to Cold Was threats from Russia, as a military dependent who went to Tripoli, Libya and came back after a Coup in 1969, the Kingdom of Idris was overthrown by a young Qudaffi. He came to save the Country and his greed destroyed a beautiful land and it’s people, a land with a long history of invasions and takeovers. My point is simply declared saviors always come with one agenda in mind and it ends up going wrong. That is we’re History into play!
The current road the GOP is on is destined to fail because their plan is old and flawed, this why it continues to fail!
They may be Federalist but they are Originalist!
All they claim to be against is what they seek.
It is not the party of Lincoln or Regan, it is the power of a select group of power player who intend to dominate and dictate to their subjects...
Love your work!