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A lot of these trends go back to Reagan so "25 years ago" isn't too long ago to have shaped those trends.

But Clinton was a bit of a correction—not perfect by any means—to Reagan, who lit a bunch of gasoline on the "don't tax and DO spend" fire. Too bad even Reagan would look like some sort of TDS cuck RINO to the current conservatives...

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The whole point of democracy is to be able to correct course by being able to amend leaders and hence amend legislation.

Sure, but it doesn't guarantee it?

So if one guy figures out some rhetorical tricks to convince an entire generation that ACTUALLY tax cuts will INCREASE revenue and HELP the deficit... while meanwhile massively increasing it under his administration... that guy still has responsibility for it decades later. (Throw in the hollywood greed-is-good-everyone-screw-over-your-neighbor-and-do-cocaine enthusiastic adoption of the era for good measure.)

I prefer to assign responsibility to the voters of the previous 25 years, just like I would to any other decision maker of any other organization trying to blame someone from 25 years ago.

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