A *week* can be a long time in politics, 25 years is an entire generation plus.
Republicans have been winning consistently for over 10 years; the country is drifting rightward. We must be doing *something* right.
We are, Bush isn't. The Bushes are fighting much of the rightward drift. Smaller military, huge expenditures, Campaign Finance Reform, expanded Medicare benefits, more Fed control of education, weaker borders. He's been ok on taxes, but note that some of the cuts are temporary. Hillary won't have to lift a finger to remove them.