In his first Congress in the Senate, Reagan’s last two years in office, he was the 30th most moderate Republican out of 44th. If you want to say moderates disappeared by the 2010s, fine. But he was not an ideological moderate. He was a maverick.
The problem is in assuming as a given that Democrats will never compromise, so Rs must.
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I mean Democrats did compromise in the 1982 deal & the deals in the 90s. But to really truly balance the budget while slashing taxes to the level that the right wants would require programmatic cuts that the voting public wouldn’t accept. Also, I think you have to look at the
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State of play: it’s one thing to say no tax increases period when Republican control everything. But if you have divided government, a compromise has to include spending cuts and tax increases. Without the latter, it would be capitulation by Democrats, not a compromise.
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