It just so happens that Reagan's prescription for prosperity and the re-establishment of this nation as the most powerful in the world transcended the problems of his time. There will always be internal and external threats to our freedoms. There will always be tension in our society between liberty and forced equality. To be sure, one purpose of tax cuts was to stimulate economic growth. But their overarching purpose was to unshackle human beings from the tentacles of big-government.
Economic growth is a byproduct of the unleashing of human potential.
And without question, Reagan rebuilt our military with the idea of demoralizing the Soviets and ultimately defeating them in the Cold War. But he knew that even with the fall of Soviet Communism, only a strong America would remain a free America. Republican ideas aren't dead unless the American dream is dead. The names, places and times will change. Republicans must remember their roots and continue to trumpet the timeless message of freedom, in good times as well as bad.