Thomas Frank of the Wall Street Journal offered a rather harsh analysis of the economic boom that was the past two decades.
It is, in other words, a political disaster, with tax cuts, trade agreements, deregulatory measures, and enforcement decisions all finely crafted to benefit one part of society and leave the rest behind. Few of the voters who gave Ronald Reagan his landslide victories, it is fair to say, intended for this to be the outcome. They wanted their country to stand tall again, certainly; they wanted the scary regulators off their backs, maybe; but I can recall no conservative who trumpeted those long-ago elections â or any of the succeeding contests, for that matter â as a referendum on plutocracy.
Say what? Have no fear.... James Pethokoukis sets the record straight in his column at US News.
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