I'm old enough to remember when rightwingers despised Russia

[Buckeye_Democrat]

68. I'll make the same suggestion to you.

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But business leaders who hated government regulation insisted that Eisenhower’s policies were tantamount to communism. They pointed to desegregation as proof that the government was redistributing tax dollars to undeserving minorities, and their mingling of racism and communist fears won votes. By the 1970s, in an uncanny echo of the 1890s and the 1920s, Republican economists had embraced the old idea that only deregulation and unfettered capitalism would create wealth, which would then trickle down to everyone.
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Democrats nominated and elected Bill Clinton too, but that doesn't mean the Democratic party fully embraced welfare reform, NAFTA and other wealth-friendly ideas at that time.

My parents were Democrats and they both voted for Eisenhower, by the way. I think he was the only Republican nominee that they ever supported.