Bill Clinton, the politician, was everything 90s America needed him to be - a genuine centrist not afraid to feed a new era of Republican Congressional dominance with right of center policies, but also ambitious enough to attempt to pass his own Medicare for All bill that came much closer to becoming law than versions that are proposed today.
The Clinton name and what it represents as it exists in 2021, though, is one of the most polarizing and lambasted in modern politics. Bill, along with Hillary Clinton, were the leaders of the Democratic Party for 25 years, yet neither played any significant role in the most recent 2020 Democratic Convention.
In this episode, we dive into why Americans today either cannot stand the Clintons or yearn for the nostalgia of the 90s Clinton era. Was Bill Clinton actually a good President, or a talented politician who could easily maneuver his administration into achieving short term successes? Clinton left office as the most popular president to exit the Presidency since FDR, yet 20 years later he already has a battered legacy. What does that tell us about what our society is like today vs the Clinton years?
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