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[–]MarkTwainiac 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In response to Reaganism, the Democratic party completely changed. Head honchos in the Dem party decided the best way to fight the Reaganites was to become more like them. Which is how Bill Clinton ended up being pre-selected by the party powers as the Dem candidate for POTUS in '92.

When Clinton was in power, the Dems abandoned the US working class for "globalism" benefitting multinational corporations and instituted policies that demonized African Americans and promoted mass incarceration of black American males in particular.

By the time Obama became POTUS, the Dems had become the party of Wall Street fat cats, Hollywood mucky mucks and the insurance industry. Matt Taibbi and many others have written a number of written books detailing what happened and why.