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“Republican rejection of reality didn’t start in 2020, or w/Trump.
“Climate change denial has been a badge of partisan identity for many years.
“Crazy conspiracy theories about the Clintons were mainstream on the right through much of the 1990s.”
/1 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/republicans-election-lost.html
“Climate change denial has been a badge of partisan identity for many years.
“Crazy conspiracy theories about the Clintons were mainstream on the right through much of the 1990s.”
/1 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/opinion/republicans-election-lost.html
“One episode foreshadowed much of what we’re seeing: Republican reactions to the mostly successful introduction of Obamacare.
“The act, Republicans claimed, would drive premiums sky-high, fail to reduce the number of uninsured and have a devastating effect on employment.”
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“The act, Republicans claimed, would drive premiums sky-high, fail to reduce the number of uninsured and have a devastating effect on employment.”
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“None of it happened. Millions gained health coverage. Job creation continued, w/3-M jobs added the following year. Obamacare may have fallen somewhat short of its sponsors’ hopes, but from the beginning it helped many Americans. Nothing like the disaster opponents predicted.”
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these false predictions mirrored the false predictions of economic doom that leading Republicans offered before President Bill Clinton and Congressional Democrats raised taxes in 1993
those tax increases were followed by an economic boom
those tax increases were followed by an economic boom
