The Welfare Queen is an epic political lie. Reagan invented her, and Americans keep buying the lie.
Since the 1980s, the GOP has been committed to darkening the face of poverty within the public imagination.
Day in and day out on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton would be a stone-cold reminder of the bad old 1990s, when she and her husband battled Gingrich tooth and nail.
But it remains to be seen how the president's us-against-them populism will play with independent voters.
Listen carefully to the Republican debates, and you get a view of the type of society many Republicans seek. The last time we had it was in the Gilded Age of the late 19th century.
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