Economics

Clinton Continues Democrats' Love-Hate Relationship With Reagan

While bashing "trickle-down economics," Clinton has also invoked Reagan to criticize Trump.
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In January 2008, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama caused a stir when he praised Ronald Reagan as a president who “changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.”

His remarks to the Reno Gazette-Journal editorial board at the time didn’t sit well with his top rival.