House leaders blamed Senate Democrats for capitulating; Senate Democrats attacked the House for poor negotiating. “The greatest threat to mankind is the cowardice of the Democratic Party,” Trent told me. The lesson they took was that the party had gotten too liberal in the late ’60s and ’70s, and the Reagan Revolution was payback. Again and again, Democrats since Reagan have gone out of their way to convince the country that they’re not tax-and-spend liberals. Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, was born in 1989, by which time Reagan was out of the White House.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2019 19:55 UTC