“Clinton was Reagan’s greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism – regulation wasn’t possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy – with a folksy postmodern optimism.”

“Clinton was Reagan’s greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism – regulation wasn’t possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy – with a folksy postmodern optimism.”

— Greg Grandin