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| 2018-01-06 |
| h/t Instapundit Most new administrations do not really completely overturn their predecessors’ policies to enact often-promised ideologically driven change. The 18-year span of Harry Truman to Dwight Eisenhower to John F. Kennedy was mostly a continuum from center-left to center-right, back to center-left. Kennedy was probably as hawkish and as much of a tax cutter as was Eisenhower. The seven years of Jerry Ford to Jimmy Carter were a similar transition ‐ or even the twelve years of George H. W. Bush to Bill Clinton. The deck chairs changed, but the ship sailed in mostly the same manner to mostly the same direction. Even the supposed great divide of 1981 did not mean that Jimmy Carter had been as left-wing as Ronald Reagan was right-wing. Carter’s fight against inflation and renewed defense build-up was continued in part by Reagan. George W. Bush was not as markedly right-wing as Barack Obama was clearly left-wing. In sum, there have rarely been back-to-back complete reversals in presidential agendas. From Hard Progressive to Hard Conservative Ideology Whatever Donald J. Trump’s political past and vociferous present, his first year of governance is most certainly as hard conservative as Barack Obama’s eight years were hard progressive. We are watching a rare experiment in political governance play out, as we go, in back-to-back fashion, from one pole to its opposite. Personally, I hope that Obama era marked peak stupidity in American, and hence World,affairs - because we couldn't survive another such. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Obama continued, IMO, patterns existing before him, and - because he's really dumb - overdone it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-06 08:54 |
| #1 This is where y3start to question whether the "really smart guys" are really all that smart. I think bath house barry obutthole was an aberration. Trump has not had to go all that far to the right to unwind the worst of obuttholism. I don't really see anything unprecedented, other than common sense ain't at all common. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-01-06 08:35 |