Bill Clinton Ended Welfare and Paved the Way for MAGA

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/27/clinton-welfare-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/45934447

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0ndead@infosec.pub · 14 pts · 27d

Clinton didn’t “end welfare”. He replaced one program with another.

MAGA would have happened either way.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 27d

This was the programme Bush wrote, right? It seems to be as bogus a statement as "Biden bungled the Afghanistan pull-out."

TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 27d

I mean..... He did popularize third way politics in America, which has paved the way for fascism in America. That being said, it's hilarious that a publication like foreign policy would attempt to blame it on changes to how welfare works without actually alluding to why.

EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 27d (1 reply)

All of our political discourse today can be traced back to Bill Fucking Clinton.

Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 27d

Go back further. Regan is to blame for a ton of our woes, and the Clinton's just made it worse. While Bush and Obama kept up the status quo while keeping us constantly at war.