Bingo!!! Democrats need a guaranteed voter base to stay in power. That is how they do it, by playing Santa Clause.
We dodged the bullet with Nixon and Ford, believe it or not. They broke the momentum between Johnson and his disastrous "War on Poverty" ("we'll have those ******* voting democrat for the next 200 years!") and the of Nixon and Ford before the next "progressive incompetent disaster" of Jimmy Cohrrer...
That minimizes the achievement of Reagan setting a standard of quiet modest real achievement before the criminal shitstorm in the distance, now known as the Clinton Criminal Enterprises... and the Great Kenyan Fraud.
God bless the Tea Party for making it, and Trump, eventually possible!