Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.
Do you think playing into the myth helped Clinton? Or do you think people who buy it vote republican anyway, just like Kamala bragging about securing the border against migrant terror caravans, loans for small businesses, the most lethal military, etc?
Because to me it looks like he’s just admitting the republicans were right, but saying they’ll be more competent at harming minorities.
White moderates and centrists believed the myth. A lot of the same ones who thought that abortions after n weeks should be illegal. A much larger portion of the electorate were truly swing voters back then and would be willing to split their ticket. While talk radio brainwashing was underway, it hadn’t reach cable news until 96. It’s why California elected republicans Pete Wilson. Politics have really changed in the past 30 to 40 years.
Outside of specific shitty Bill Clinton reasons, the problem is enough of the electorate bought into the lazy welfare queen myth and the Democrats got the presidency because they were third-waying it (and Perot and Gulf War I). Bootstrap fever was high in the nineties.
Do you think playing into the myth helped Clinton? Or do you think people who buy it vote republican anyway, just like Kamala bragging about securing the border against migrant terror caravans, loans for small businesses, the most lethal military, etc?
Because to me it looks like he’s just admitting the republicans were right, but saying they’ll be more competent at harming minorities.
White moderates and centrists believed the myth. A lot of the same ones who thought that abortions after n weeks should be illegal. A much larger portion of the electorate were truly swing voters back then and would be willing to split their ticket. While talk radio brainwashing was underway, it hadn’t reach cable news until 96. It’s why California elected republicans Pete Wilson. Politics have really changed in the past 30 to 40 years.