Giving your political goals a catchy nickname doesn’t always work.
Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society wasn’t so great.
The GOP’s Contract with America didn’t accomplish much (beyond getting Republicans elected, of course).
And Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Plan was briefly hailed “as the most transformational social spending package in modern American history [but] is now nothing more than an ambitious memory.”
Yes, Americans have decided that they don’t want the government to build back anything, because that smacks of, you know, socialism. So instead of actually solving problems or investing in the country, we will continue to hurl tax dollars at billionaires and hope that they treat us nice.
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