Some Europeans who sought new models for rightist politics also looked to America. There, a more radical form of conservatism had taken hold during the 1980s, thanks to the support given to anti–big government and pro–White Christian sentiments during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. The 1994 “Contract with America,” coauthored by Republican politicians Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, promised trust-based politics and fiscal responsibility. It influenced Fini, who some called “the Italian Gingrich,” the French National Front Party’s 1995 “Contract for France with the French,” and Berlusconi’s 2001
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