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"The economy is doing well, so why would you want to improve American society in this moment?" is an odd question.
I mean, that was the entire rationale behind the Great Society.
I mean, that was the entire rationale behind the Great Society.
"Sure, President Johnson, we could *try* to pass Medicare and Medicaid right now in the flush years of the mid-1960s, but wouldn't it be smarter to wait until there was a recession?"
And now Savannah Guthrie is acting like a 70% top tax rate is insane and not, again, something we had in the postwar period (and even higher).
If the people running the Democratic debates would like to get some historians together to run a crash course on modern American history for the moderators, I bet we could round up a lot of volunteers.
