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If there 's a gap in Hacker and Pierson 's account it is the glancing treatment they give to the parallel stories of how oppositional forces such as labor unions , the press , and most obviously the Democratic Party have either withered or failed to hold the machine accountable . His 1st foes were the Russians and his 2nd were the liberals who fought him every step of the way from his expansion of defense spending , to missle deployments and most obviously to Star Wars .