Ron & Maggie

A famous left-wing poster parodied the Reagan-Thatcher alliance as a remake of Gone with the Wind, with Reagan as Rhett sweeping Maggie off her feet. The poster was adopted by its opponents and decorated many a young conservative’s apartment: It conveyed, more successfully than its authors had intended, a certain romantic quality in the “special relationship” between the president and the prime minister.

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

Ron & Maggie

A famous left-wing poster parodied the Reagan-Thatcher alliance as a remake of Gone with the Wind, with Reagan as Rhett sweeping Maggie off her feet. The poster was adopted by its opponents and decorated many a young conservative’s apartment: It conveyed, more successfully than its authors had intended, a certain romantic quality in the “special relationship” between the president and the prime minister.