Schweiker was a liberal Republican. Some political observers say this is why Reagan lost the nomination to President Ford.

施威克是一位自由派共和党人。一些政治观察家表示，这就是里根的提名输给福特总统的原因。

The revolt against corruption in politics which produced the Liberal Republican outbreak in the seventies and the Mugwump movement of the eighties was followed by continuous criticism of American political and economic development.

七十年代自由共和党的爆发和八十年代的 Mugwump 运动引发了对政治腐败的反抗，随之而来的是对美国政治和经济发展的持续批评。