Nixon was the first president to start down the path of the Unitary Executive. Ford, Regan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Trump was the pathway.
But this all started long before the New Deal was even signed. This started before J. Edgar Hoover too.
This is all a result of the civil war. Had Lincoln not been assassinated and Andrew Johnson kick-started “reconstruction” and giving the South basically everything they wanted, we ended up where we are.
Reagan wasn’t alone in gutting legislation from that era, fucking over the working class has been bipartisan. Every present since Reagan has been an extension of his terms
Both parties are complicit in the neoliberal economic disaster that has happened to our country.
The GOP wants to go past neoliberal and not only destroy any restraint on businesses to destroy our environment and our way of life but they want to destroy any and all social safety nets therefore making all Americans subservient to the capitalist class.
Clinton was by far worse than any of them, he positioned himself as an ally to the marginalized and working class. While dismantling every protection the working class had.
This has been true since Reagan gutted the New Deal.
Nixon was the first president to start down the path of the Unitary Executive. Ford, Regan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., and Trump was the pathway.
But this all started long before the New Deal was even signed. This started before J. Edgar Hoover too.
This is all a result of the civil war. Had Lincoln not been assassinated and Andrew Johnson kick-started “reconstruction” and giving the South basically everything they wanted, we ended up where we are.
Reagan wasn’t alone in gutting legislation from that era, fucking over the working class has been bipartisan. Every present since Reagan has been an extension of his terms
Both parties are complicit in the neoliberal economic disaster that has happened to our country.
The GOP wants to go past neoliberal and not only destroy any restraint on businesses to destroy our environment and our way of life but they want to destroy any and all social safety nets therefore making all Americans subservient to the capitalist class.
Since Reagan, its hard to name a worse president than Bill Clinton for the working class in America.
Clinton was by far worse than any of them, he positioned himself as an ally to the marginalized and working class. While dismantling every protection the working class had.
Bias and username check out.
Only 49% of us seem to live in the real world, apparently.
I wouldn’t rule out things being better in, say, 100 years, but it would take a lot of luck and effort to get to that point.