> It looks like it was under control for a while following World War II, but then from the early 1980
Democrats had a near solid lock on Congress from World War II until the early 1980s (only 2 two year sessions where they didn't control both chambers) and Congress hadn't abdicated its power of the purse.
Republicans spend a lot of time branding themselves as the "party of fiscal responsibility", but ask yourself in what situations a group needs heavy branding by way of incessant self messaging. By every major objective measure, Republican control of government has been worse for the economy.
And to be clear, none of this reply is meant as a defense of the current Democratic party which is currently (at the national level) leaderless and in shambles and is far too captured by its donor class of special interests to protect the interests of the American working and middle classes and who will be unable to regain real power until they address that.
Democrats had a near solid lock on Congress from World War II until the early 1980s (only 2 two year sessions where they didn't control both chambers) and Congress hadn't abdicated its power of the purse.
Republicans spend a lot of time branding themselves as the "party of fiscal responsibility", but ask yourself in what situations a group needs heavy branding by way of incessant self messaging. By every major objective measure, Republican control of government has been worse for the economy.
And to be clear, none of this reply is meant as a defense of the current Democratic party which is currently (at the national level) leaderless and in shambles and is far too captured by its donor class of special interests to protect the interests of the American working and middle classes and who will be unable to regain real power until they address that.