Answer:
The highlighted text from Sec. 7 of "A Time for Choosing" where Reagan uses contrast to make his point is: "This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."
The answer is C. Reagan contrasts self-government WITH government control by a "little intellectual elite."