Chicago Tribune
When Barack Obama was in the White House, conservatives argued that he was putting the world’s premier capitalist country on the road to socialism. It turns out that they were right — but Donald Trump is driving the bus.
Socialism used to be the antithesis of Republican principles. “Socialism only works in two places — heaven, where they don’t need it, and hell, where they already have it,” Ronald Reagan quipped .
It was not just outright nationalization of industries that conservatives rejected; it was almost any sort of federal interference with private markets to achieve social or economic goals. Obama’s Affordable Care Act preserved the role of private insurers, but GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann expressed a right-wing consensus when she told the 2011 Conservative Political Action Con
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