In an Italian hotel ballroom of spectacular opulence – on red velvet chairs, beneath glittering crystal chandeliers and a stained-glass ceiling – the conservative movement that once inspired people across Europe, built bridges across the Iron Curtain and helped to win the Cold War came, finally, to an end.
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Anne Applebaum: This is how Reaganism and Thatcherism end
This 17 July, 1987 file photo shows former US President Ronald Reagan and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as they pose for photographers on the patio outside the Oval Office, Washington, DC.
