Looking back on history, it seems like Reagan was a but brief respite from the steady march of statism. The last truly conservative president before that had to be like...Coolidge. Ever since... We’ve been moving left. With the election of O, it just full steam ahead at this point.
“Looking back on history, it seems like Reagan was a but brief respite from the steady march of statism. The last truly conservative president before that had to be like...Coolidge. Ever since... We’ve been moving left. With the election of O, it just full steam ahead at this point.”
Reagan never reversed the tide like he promised. He just slowed the expansion. To his benefit, he saw an opportunity to collapse the USSR because its unsustainable economic model was showing cracks (sound familiar?) and made the decision to make taking out the Ruskies his top priority. He still did an admirable job on fixing the economy.
Coolidge was, in fact, the last President to lower taxes, cut government spending, reduce the size of government and improve the economy — all in less than five years.