TEAR. UP. THIS. ASS.

>>14922021 (OP)

hell yeah dude

he was a massive liberal

>>14922021 (OP)

Read this in the hl1 grunt voice

reagan hit the griddy?

Not this fucking Anon

ive met a lot of conservatives who say Bush was a RINO but still celebrate Reagan. Is it just because he's seen as a "wartime" president in the sense that he btfo the soviets?

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>>14922021 (OP)

That’s leftism in a nutshell. You have to build a wall with machine guns and barbed wire to keep people from leaving your workers “paradise”.

Reagan essentially created the modern conservative brand. He was the first president to win off of a coalition of southerners resentful of civil rights, lasse-faire capitalists, and evangelical voters, who first emerged as an organized political movement around the same time.



Bush is only seen poorly because of how horribly the War on Terror went and the financial collapse. He can only seriously be called a RINO because the overton window is steadily shifting right for the conservative voting block, and unlike Reagan, he is both alive and did not oversee a period of relative prosperity, political unity, and the fall from grace of geopolitical enemies.

>assuming Bush Jr.

No I meant Jeb!

Well Sr. is a lot easier to explain:

READ MY LIPS

>created

fiscal frugality has been promoted forever, the collapse of the whig party was because of the question of deficit spending with John Tyler leaving the whig party during his presidency because of how stupid congressional whigs wanted to be with money. This era was forgotten because the gilded age was more about land grants that deficit spending (because whigs left their states with tens of millions in debt from deficit spending). It wasn't until the creation of the federal reserve that full blown federal deficit spending became federal policy again, which of course ebbed with the resurgence of conservatives like reagan

ok, two things:

1. That's just one part of the coalition I'm referring to

2. Reagan and the conservative movement are not actually "fiscally conservative". Yes, they promote cutting social programs like welfare, but they actually increase the deficit because that's about all they want to cut, and cutting the social programs that spend the most money (SS and Medicare) would be incredibly unpopular. They are for less government regulation and corporate taxes, not a more balanced budget. The deficit increased under Reagan, Bush Jr., and Trump. Bush Jr. actually got rid of a budget surplus with his tax cuts for the wealthy.

Regan raised the deficit because he cut taxes and regulations that were created by democrats to paralyze the economy so that industry competitors for their corporate lobbyists couldn't afford to operate, which lead to the 90's boom

You can justify your deficit spending all you want, but it is not "fiscal frugality", at least in any way that would relate to the Whig party. The idea that the government can energize the economy by spending more money than is coming in is Keynesian.

>I win semantically but concede the argument

wow you're like 85 IQ

Not really, like I said, they are pro-deregulation and lower taxes, but that does not make them fiscally frugal. They're still for huge government spending programs not tied to the government's income.

Semantics

85 IQ monkey
