Democrats are finally aggressively touting major projects and investments after years of running scared from Republican attacks on their “tax and spend” policies and alleged “socialism,' HayesBrown writes for MSNBCDaily.
There was no question about that at the time. Clinton was banking on triangulation — co-opting the GOP’s policy ideas to win over its voters — to win re-election that fall. After years of hearing about Reagan Republicans’ grip on the suburbs and the GOP takeover of the House in 1994, Democrats had decided “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” The result was two parties bothTwenty-five years later, that time is over. Shrinking the size and scope of government isin either party.
has always clashed with the social conservative branch’s need to control certain people’s bodies and behavior through anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ policies.the resulting tax cuts didn’t slow a massive increase in federal spending. We saw the same under Presidents George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Ballooning deficits undercut promises of reduced government.Trump didn’t even pay lip service to limiting the federal government’s power and scope.
Today, the governors vying for Trump’s supporters have been fine with using whatever means possible to assert similar auras of authority. Gov. Greg Abbott has
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