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“It’s also true that Clinton’s association with the boom years – and the way in which they clearly helped many middle class Americans – has deflected a coherent left-wing attack on the legacy of the 1990s. After the crash of 1987, the Democrats and liberals made every effort to portray the 1980s as a decade of greed, fomented by selfish Republicans. But that is politically much harder to do with the 1990s. It was an era when the Democrats finally managed to persuade Americans that they could manage the economy. Today, the Democrats don’t have any deep incentive to alter that perception. That’s why they want to link the current corporate excess with a Republican administration – a strategy undermined solely by the facts.” For more of this article, just posted, click here.