I'm 50 and this is also my understanding. I get the impression that younger people think it's just something that popped up magically during the Clinton years though
Not solely Nixon as an individual, the 1966 election starts the disaster. The pivot window is dismantling Bretton Woods, opening the door for deregulation, speculation and offshoring that killed labor’s strength. Roll back of the Great Society programs, moratorium on public housing, etc
Ok yeah that's fair, like bretton woods obvs a necessary precursor, as well as stuff like new federalism and goldwater. It's lowkey a hard question to answer imo, bc it's more like a 40+ year process, and the macro policy and political aspects don't necessarily line up cleanly
…and that’s on my Latin American Studies degrees and econ classes in Cuba lol, otherwise I would definitely be saying Clinton times like most my age, I think.
I'm bout to be 47. The neoliberal turn was 1992 with Clinton's election, because that solidified it as the primary functional opposition/partner to Reaganomics.
I'm old--65. I got into politics at a very young age, primarily due to my parents being so vocal about politics. I truly took a liberal turn when I was five or six years old.
I def recognize it started before that but the later 90s does feel like another rightward shift-my thinking being it's about Clinton bringing the Democrats into the right wing ideology about welfare and crime and national "security." From my understanding there used to be some actual opposition.
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…and that’s on my Latin American Studies degrees and econ classes in Cuba lol, otherwise I would definitely be saying Clinton times like most my age, I think.
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