Bill Clinton states the obvious

By Michael J.W. Stickings

But, given the influence of the Tea Party and the persistence of utterly inane right-wing narratives, the obvious sometimes needs to be stated:

You know, there's not a single solitary example on the planet, not one, of a country that is successful because the economy has triumphed over the government and choked it off and driven the tax rates to zero, driven the regulations to nonexistent and abolished all government programs, except for defense, so people in my income group never have to pay a nickel to see a cow jump over the moon. There is no example of a successful country that looks like that.

Exactly.

(Not that the obvious will change things, mind you. Conservatives these days care as much about history as they do about science.)