Wonderful, they'll eat out more and women work cheap. Since then, President Clinton, using blandishments and the tug of party loyalty, has been able to pick off, one by one, reluctant Democrats. Behind them stand the money-lenders of the Fortune 500. Then, all things are possible. To make this bitter pill go down easier with his party's Left, Clinton is promising a big new job-training program.
Republicans get nothing.
Elite Americans are no longer seriously churchgoing, but their unquestioning faith in the ideology of free trade is intact. From Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Coolidge, the GOP was the party of industry. The Night Watchmen State. This was the foundation of American prosperity, the formula that converted the small agrarian economy of 1800 into the greatest industrial power the world had ever seen by 1900, with mankind's highest standard of living. But after World War II, Republicans lapsed in the old faith and bought into all the Utopian heresies of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt whom the Old Right had fought to the last ditch.