The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

Actually, the problems with conservatism today and in circa 1929-32 are much the same, for the same reason. Covid is severe in the USA because Trump tore down government programs created to deal with pandemics, and expected states to cure it on their own without funding and instead of a national mobilization. And the economy never really recovered for many people from the great recession brought about by the same trickle-down, free-market policies that caused the great depression. Government is not the solution; government is the problem. Destroy the administrative state. Trump is the final failure of Reaganomics, which was the final development of Coolidge and Hoover policies.

"Reagan was the key figure of the conservative era, setting the tone and policies of the time. I would put Trump as the bad president who took those policies to absurdity and killed them."

That's right.