Krugman gets it right

In his note on the Bush legacy. My hordes of readers know I consider conservative Republicans the closest thing we have to active Communists.

Let me add a link that Krugman neglects. Lowering progressive tax rates by both Bush and Reagan was done precisely to expand government. It is the actual intent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans to expand government, though they may lie about it.

Raising the progressive tax rates by Obama and Clinton is done precisely to reduce government, though Clinton was eventually honest about it.

Let me reiterate this point, the Republican Party was formed by John Fremont exactly to implement socialist subsidies toward western expansion, and unnecessarily caused the Civil War as a result. It was only for a brief period that Republicans abandoned Stalinism. The Reagan big government communist wing of that party is its natural state. That is why they have difficulty changing.