You’re missing the fact that introducing bureaucracy is the GOP’s best tool in dismantling big bad government.
In Nixon’s time, introducing an agency that directly answered to/was controlled by Congress was the name of the game.
In Nixon’s time, introducing an agency that directly answered to/was controlled by Congress was the name of the game.
-Nominating Warren Burger and Harry Blackmun to the Supreme Court, who concurred in Roe v Wade.[0]
-Creating subsidies to turn corn into a commodity crop, effectively paying farmers to grow a lot of it[1]
-De-coupling the US Dollar from the value of gold and instituting price and wage controls[2]
No Republican in any district in 2018 America could get the nomination supporting these policies.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade#Supreme_Court_deci...
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz#Secretary_of_Agricul...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Domestic_policy