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I’m gonna keep saying this because it’s so poorly understood: Since 1981 the deficit has grown under every Republican president and shrunk under every Democratic president.
Donald Trump isn’t an aberration from Republican orthodoxy on fiscal matters; he’s following in the tradition of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush by boosting deficits via tax cuts and more military money.
GOP donor emails: “In retrospect, Trump calling himself the King of Debt was the harbinger of things to come.”
