John B. Judis, a senior editor of New Republic, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and the author of The
Emerging Democratic Majority and The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Scribner, 2004) looks at what this election means for party dominance.
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One of today's callers commented that the election turned out the way it did only because of "really bad luck" with the economy. As if it were a bolt of lightning from a blameless sky.
But of course it wasn't. Our financial problems are the logical consequence of 8 -- or maybe 28 -- years of Republicans claiming they were the party of balanced budgets, while really pulling out the national credit card and charging huge deficits to our children's futures. And every time a Democrat has to come in and do the hard work of actually balancing the budget -- remember Clinton? -- we get to be the "bad" cop.
Tne only lucky thing about this time around is that the collapse happened while the Republicans were still holding the bag!
i completely disagree with your guest, who earlier said that those who "grew up during the reagan administration" are by and large republicans. this is rather short-sighted. i grew up with reagan republican parents, but took after my grandparents much more, who were immigrants concerned with equal opportunity and social justice, and were decidedly left-skewing. most of my friends would concur. if you know anything about gen x (and i'm at the earlier sector), you would know that our career prospects were curtailed by now three recessions during our "career lifetimes", and are notably skeptical about what republican "leadership" has done to minimize its lack of oversight of the industries who continue to right-side us, lay us off, and otherwise supplant us (now) with cheaper and more recent college grads. talk to some of us, and you would know.
Just want to say this entire show is a really good one. Thanks for the segments. Very informative and education topics.
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