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goobster · 2961 days ago · link · · parent · post: The racist foundation of the modern Republican party
Kinda sorta. He did some clever shit by grabbing a couple of good Republican programs, slapping a new name on them, and then claiming them as his own. And they worked! But Bill Clinton still had that essential Democrat belief that government can solve problems. It can't, really. It can incentivize the private sector to focus on a set of problems, but government involvement in a problem rarely helps the situation. And, it leads to more government. If Bill Clinton could have shaken off that central tenet of the Democratic platform, then he would have been even more effective.