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hopper
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« on: March 15, 2014, 03:30:58 PM »
« edited: March 15, 2014, 03:33:13 PM by hopper »

When? Well the Dems were still obsessing after FDR when Reagan was President I have heard. I think when Clinton was President that's when Dems stop obsessing over FDR. Now every Dem talks about Clinton now and his presidency was over 13-14 years ago.  I know  Conservative Talk Radio loves to talk about Reagan and cherish but the country demographically and the economy was different then. Japan was the only economic competitor to the US. Now we have China, Mexico, and Brazil competing with the US on an economic basis daily.

The Republicans like to look to Reagan for inspiration on economic policy but those policies aren't going to work now. The Reagan Tax Cuts worked because Japan was our only economic competitor then now The Reagan Tax Cuts would fail because of all the countries that are competing with us.

I think when the Republicans get their "Bill Clinton" they will stop talking about Reagan. Maybe Jeb Bush is that candidate.

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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2014, 03:35:50 PM »

When Democrats stop obsessing over FDR. Both of them are the pillars of political thought representing the two parties.
Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin loves FDR. I'm amazed at how much she cherishes FDR's legacy.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2014, 03:38:16 PM »

Reagan is the Republican's FDR.

Do we expect Democrats to stop talking about the strides that FDR made during his Presidency anytime soon?

Republicans talk more about Reagan than Democrats talk about FDR and LBJ combined.
Well Lyndon B Johnson is not known as a great president. He did leave a good legacy behind like Medicare, and The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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hopper
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« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2014, 03:47:06 PM »

When they have a GOP president that isn't consider a failure historically.  
You think George HW Bush's Presidency was a failure? I don't think so. He is generally well liked by both parties now. I would give him an "incomplete" on his presidency. His defeat was moderately because of the pop culture change in 1992 from the 1980's pop culture as to why he lost as President  in 1992. Pop Culture really hasn't seen a backlash of a decade since the decade of the 80's got backlashed either. George HW Bush was at the wrong place at the wrong time partly and he really didn't have a plan for a second term to reduce the deficit  and an economic policy which Clinton kind of did.

Now yes George W. Bush's presidency is viewed as a failure.
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