“The Huckster: Smarmier than Jimmy Carter, and Slicker than Willie Clinton.”
America is at heart, a lower to middle class nation in tastes.
TV has made the visual, voice, popular presentation more important than in the old days of Newspapers and sonorous big three networks.
Seriously, do you think if the Democrats all disappeared tomorrow, the Republican party would return us to small government, low tax/regulations? Naw, too many business are set up to prosper in this environment. Too many new, low cost business would be started up, risking old investments and long term debts. Frankly, the Republican Party loves the existance of the Democrats. Who would of thought after winning the the Presidency and both houses they would manufacture themselves back so that Dems would lead and they could comfortably go along, all the while spewing shibboleths about low taxs, small state.