@S_r_stone Important graphic
@S_r_stone: The neoconservatives decried debt, debt-spending, and "just printing up money to balance the budget", but that's how they "created a robust economy". They decried "The Hippies" as selfish, petulant, lazy dolts with no financial discipline... while they spent with the national, state, and local credit cards like drunken sailors on 24-hour shore leave.
The neoliberals took that and ran with it, too.
@S_r_stone I attended the University of Illinois during the Reagan administration.
@poemblaze Behind the Bastards podcast covered the Reagans specifically around the AIDS crisis.
Teflon Ron somehow escaped the stink of all the corruption of his administration.
@poemblaze TL;DR More offensive is the fact they had gay friends, gay people in his state administration. But he threw them all under the bus when evangelicals put on a little anti-gay pressure.
@S_r_stone Hypocrisy and politics go hand in hand.
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