When will the GOP get the message that the US voters do NOT want an opposition party?

The GOP has gone WAY to the right. History of the Republican Party From 1901-1909 the Republicans were quite progressive under Teddy Roosevelt. They went crazy in 1921 under Warren Harding, when the radicals took over the Party.

Harding dropped the top tax rate from 91% down to 25% resulting in the Roaring Twenties, the land and stock bubble. The land bubble popped in 1927. Hoover was elected in 1929, the year the stock bubble popped.

Hoover’s response was “let’s cut spending and cut taxes on the rich.” That gave us the Great Depression. The moderates took over the Republican Party again in 1934.

Democratic FDR took office in 1933 and raised taxes on the wealthy up to 91%, where they stayed from the late 1930sa all the way to the 1960s. That produced an industrial revolution; rich people got rich but the middle class got even richer. The radicals took it again in 1946, and took control of the House and Senate for two years.

That blew things up so badly they lost the House for the next 26 years. The moderates came back in 1952 with Eisenhower. Then in 1964 the hard right radicals took over again with the Goldwater candidacy.

In 1969 the moderates took the Republican Party back with Richard Nixon, who proposed a national health care system virtually identical to Obamacare in 1973. In 1981 Reagan came along and the crazies took over again. We had the worst recession during the Reagan administration since the Great Depression, again following a giant cut in taxes on millionaires and billionaires.

Unemployment was over 12%, and we had the biggest stock market crash since the Depression. Reagan ran up tons of debt, and to get out of the disaster he’d created he raised taxes radically on working people with the biggest tax increase on people making under $100K/year in the history of the United States. (The biggest tax cut on that same group of people happened under Obama.) That still wasn’t enough.

Reagan borrowed more money than every president before him combined. He left office in 1988 leaving us nearly $3 Trillion in debt. Before Reagan we had never had even $1 Trillion in debt.

The moderates took over again with George HW Bush. He raised taxes, which lost him the election. The crazies took it back again with George W Bush, then they got a further crazy boost in 2010 with the Tea Party.

The party has not been in step since the day you elected Nixon.

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