"Perlstein said that, if she read his books with the attentiveness she claimed, she would not have risked our pensions and mortgages with a naïve belief that tax cuts would stimulate economic growth and raise revenue for the Treasury. Far from paying for themselves, Reagan’s income and capital gains tax cuts in the early 1980s sent public debt from 26 per cent GDP in 1980 to 41 per cent GDP by 1988."
This suggests quite the opposite to me. Truss has said repeatedly and clearly that she wants to shrink government.
If she has read Perlstein's books, and also Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine[1], she is merely applying what she has read.
No one should be surprised either now, or soon when the Bristish PM says that "debt has to be cut, so we are privatising the NHS and cutting pensions".