I voted for Bill Clinton twice. Thought he was a Democrat. Undercover Republican, actually.
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TF: If listeners can remember the late 1990s, there was this kind of mania for privatizing Social Security and investing it in the stock market. And what we now know, thanks to the work of a historian, is that in fact Clinton and Gingrich, who were, we at the time thought were these sort of mortal enemies, right, these political opposites, were in fact fully in agreement on a scheme to privatize Social Security. And they met secretly—there’s photographs of them meeting—they met secretly, they talked it over, they came up with a plan. And Clinton started on their plan; he announced, you know, that he was going to, you know, I forget how he put it, that he was going to save Social Security or something like that, by which he meant privatize it. And then they were [laughs] so rudely interrupted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, right? Which came along the next day and polarized the country, and polarized Washington; so, you know, so finally put Republicans in one corner and Democrats in another, that Clinton and Gingrich could not, they couldn’t have any kind of consensus activity. Or, no—that was the end of triangulation, let’s put it that way. So it never happened; it never happened, thanks to Monica Lewinsky.
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Robert Scheer Talks With Thomas Frank About Democrats’ Shift Away From Addressing Inequality (Audio)
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