re: What history books in the future will cite for today as "they should've known"

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Didn't Clinton balance it and left Bush with a surplus?

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He did. One of the first things Bush did after he won was to mail every 1999 tax filer $300. Then he shoved through a tax cut his own Treasury Secretary called reckless, and started a couple of random wars.

Then we elected Obama out of spite at how stupid Dubya was.

Then we elected Trump out of spite at how racist Obama was.

Then a bunch of suburban white women latched onto covid as a way to stay home all day, and here we are: Idiocracy.