Why did he reject the post-war consensus about the virtues of government?

ECONOMIST: The unacknowledged giant

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan had smashed the post-war consensus.

ECONOMIST: The state and the economy

By breaking the post-war consensus and emasculating the unions, she paved the way for a new Labour Party more in tune with the British electorate and less in hock to the union bosses.

ECONOMIST: From third way to Thatcherism

The 1945 election has been seen as showing a broad consensus behind the post-war welfare state.

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Under the stifling, consensus-based post-war system, based on a Social Democrat-People's Party duopoly, mentioning the issue smacked of bad manners.

BBC: Gross symbolises Austria's past

For most of the post-war era the American media were dominated by a comfortable liberal consensus.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Although no effort was made to reach a consensus or to adopt specific recommendations, the general sentiment appeared to be that the post-Cold War era is increasingly characterized by portentous challenges and ominous instability.

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