Post WWII we put “under God” in the pledge of allegiance.
We put “In God we trust on our money”. Why? Not because we suddenly became a Godly nation. We did it because the majority of both Dems and Pubbies agreed that the US should not become a Nazi Germany or Communist Russia where the STATE was the GOD.
The next generation was the LBJ-Nixon era. LBJ’s war on Vietnam and War on Poverty/Medicare/Medicaid/Federal control of previous State welfare programs.
Nixon continued that direction. The Feds could print money and borrow with no real limit. The Feds turned the states into whores of the Feds.
I just came from GA Medicaid IT. Independent of whether one thinks Medicaid is a good or bad idea, the states are whores for Medicaid money. HHS says “spread your legs.” “The states respond “How wide?” “Would you like fries with that?”
Most things from Reagan to Biden have been trying to figure out how to adjust to that direction set by LBJ-NIXON.
Now Trump is trying what Reagan-Biden never tried.
Nixon continued that direction. The Feds could print money and borrow with no real limit. The Feds turned the states into whores of the Feds.
“We are all Keynsians now.”
If you look at most of the things you think came from LBJ, they actually started or came from the radical JFK.