# Reagan Coalition The **Reagan Coalition** was the "three-legged stool" that defined [[Republican Party]] orthodoxy from 1980 through roughly 2016: economic conservatives (tax cuts, deregulation, free trade), social conservatives (the [[Religious Right]]), and defense hawks (anti-communism, military buildup). Held together by Ronald Reagan's personal appeal and the unifying enemy of Soviet communism, its internal contradictions were later exposed and scrambled by the [[MAGA]] realignment. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to resolve inbound wikilinks. Expand as the cluster grows.