Trump made the culture worse with his rhetoric, but was thankfully a legislative failure. He passed all of 1 piece of meaningful legislation, a hand out to the rich. His SCOTUS appointments were McConnell’s achievement.
Reagan got his grotesque agenda passed, and succeeded in getting his “opposition” party to take the corporate bribe money, abandon unions in all but rhetoric, and go full neoliberal into today.
We haven’t had an anti reaganomics, trickle down, rigged capitalist economic President from either party since. Now our 2 party’s largely align on the economic issues that exacerbate the social issues and fight over those.
That is Reagans legacy, setting the table for the owner class to siphon every last crumb from the peasants in perpetuity, both in legislative framework, and cultural acceptance.
Because in “turning the bull loose,” you just became a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, amirite?
Trump was a big dumb animal.
Reagan knew how to fuck shit up. Competent malice.
Reagan was a dumb animal too. He just was less hostile towards his handlers.
I’d argue that incompetent malice has been pretty effective at fucking shit up too.
Trump made the culture worse with his rhetoric, but was thankfully a legislative failure. He passed all of 1 piece of meaningful legislation, a hand out to the rich. His SCOTUS appointments were McConnell’s achievement.
Reagan got his grotesque agenda passed, and succeeded in getting his “opposition” party to take the corporate bribe money, abandon unions in all but rhetoric, and go full neoliberal into today.
We haven’t had an anti reaganomics, trickle down, rigged capitalist economic President from either party since. Now our 2 party’s largely align on the economic issues that exacerbate the social issues and fight over those.
That is Reagans legacy, setting the table for the owner class to siphon every last crumb from the peasants in perpetuity, both in legislative framework, and cultural acceptance.
Because in “turning the bull loose,” you just became a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, amirite?
I would argue all the judges nominated and confirmed will have implications lasting multiple lifetimes.