re: #117 Dark_Falcon

IMO, the main weakness of the Sobel article is that many points that are more properly directed at movement conservatism as a whole are focused too specifically on the Reagan administration.

E.g., point #5 is a logical mess. Reagan’s tax cuts and job outsourcing are both bad things (at least from a leftie POV), but to imply the tax cuts were the cause of the outsourcing is bizarre. At the end, the point about static wages for middle and lower classes, while the rich get all the increases is valid, but it requires 30 years of data to become compelling. Thus it stands as a criticism of every Congress and administration from 1980 on, and it is a more significant criticism in recent years when the trend is more apparent.

Finally, I have to question how one gets to the conclusion that Reagan was worse then W Bush from a leftie point of view. That’s a real head-scratcher for me.