The worst thing Ronald Reagan did was to make the denial of compassion respectable. He said “You’ve worked hard, you’ve made your money, you shouldn’t have to feel guilty about refusing to throw it away on people who chose to be homeless and who chose not to work”. (…) He said it with an elegance and a kind of benign aspect that disguised its harshness.

Mario Cuomo: The Century of the Self – Part 4, 19:57 (Adam Curtis, 2002)