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The OP's question is one with a surprisingly specific anwer. To whit...
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Simply put in the run up to the 1980 presidential election, George H.W. Bush's political political ambitions (after he lost the primary to Reagan), led him to commit the Origin Sin against big C conservatism by eating his own words criticizing Reagan's trickle down nonsense (he had called it Voodoo Economics during the primary). Because he wanted to satisfy his own personal selfish ambitions (get the VP slot). So he sold the rest of us down the road and hopped in bed with the supply side nonsense that he knew full well was bullshit.
This had two effects, for one it solidified the myth of "tax cuts for the ultra rich will make us all prosperous!" with the depressingly predictable end result that 50 years later we are all being lorded over by an oligarchic billionaire ruling class. But maybe just as consequently, it set the template for "Republicans fall in line for even the most batshit stupid lunacy" that continues to reverberate right down to this day.
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Vice President George Bush was only 'kidding' reporters when he denied branding Ronald Reagan's economic proposals 'voodoo economics' during the 1980...
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This had two effects, for one it solidified the myth of "tax cuts for the ultra rich will make us all prosperous!" with the depressingly predictable end result that 50 years later we are all being lorded over by an oligarchic billionaire ruling class. But maybe just as consequently, it set the template for "Republicans fall in line for even the most batshit stupid lunacy" that continues to reverberate right down to this day.
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