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Before They Were ‘Not-So-Bright’ Trumpists, They Were ‘Not-So-Bright’ Bush and Reagan Supporters
Is it a coincidence or just a result of failed Republican policies that our nation is on the brink of ending democracy?
In his first State of the Union address, Ronald Reagan blamed the nation’s economic woes on the “tax and spend” policies of the decades before he became president. Having benefitted from those policies, upon becoming president, he decided that such “hand-outs” weakened the nation, so they had to be ended.
In a way, Ronald Reagan couldn’t have been more spot-on. It was a Roosevelt work program that financed a summer lifeguarding job for the president-to-be as a teen growing up in Dixon, Illinois, which laid a foundation for his future life. Thanks to the “handout,” he could earn money, save it, and advance successfully through life, eventually becoming the governor of California and the president of the United States. America is still reeling from his presidency.
The foundation from which Reagan and several generations in post-World War II America benefitted was America’s finest moment for one reason: income equality across the board dropped to its lowest levels in our nation’s history. The “good old days” of Father Knows Best, when…
