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I think they were circling a real idea but poorly worded: if you were a kid in the 80s, that stuff was surprising and parodied in many cases even if it ultimately won out. Now when people see the backdrop for some of the movies which came out around then, it doesn’t seem like a parody as much as a pretty linear projection. Gordon Gecko was the villain but you can find a lot of people and especially many politicians who now unironically support his beliefs.

So, yes, those positions existed back then but they weren’t culturally ascendent the way they were by the turn of the century.