Raymond J. de Souza: The big, not-at-all-beautiful first year of Trump 2.0 |
Make no mistake, this 'big government' president is no conservative
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President Bill Clinton is a Democratic establishment figure now, but he rose in the 1980s as a kind of insurgent “new Democrat.” In 1990 he became, while governor of Arkansas, president of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of partisans promoting a more centrist, less liberal approach, the Democrats having lost five of the previous six presidential elections. Clinton himself won in 1992, a new Democrat from a new generation, and began reshaping his party in his image.
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Thirty years ago this week, Clinton used his prime-time State of the Union address to launch his 1996 re-election campaign. Waving a fond farewell to FDR and LBJ, the new Democrat declared that “the era of big government is over.”
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As President Donald Trump marks the first anniversary of his second inauguration on Tuesday, the unifying theme of his second term could be summarized: The Era of Big Government is Back.
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