💬 Opinion 3d ago · Nick Gillespie

One Thing Every Modern President Has in Common: They All Spent More Than the Last Guy

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One Thing Every Modern President Has in Common: They All Spent More Than the Last Guy
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One of the most persistent and misleading fallacies in politics is that successive presidents represent a clear and decisive change in the direction of the country, especially when they are from different parties. Republican Richard Nixon barely squeaking into office in a tight three-way race meant that Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson and "the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years" were as beaten down as hippies at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago,

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