Moving left

In politics the rule is not what is good for the country but what is good for the party. This means the opposition party must be against anything for which the party in control might get credit. This goes both ways with both parties. The most recent example is border security. Here is Bill Clinton in his 1995 state of the union speech. “That’s why our administration has moved to aggressively secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as every before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens,” Clinton said. Others say that the democrats are not just against the wall because Trump wants it but rather the party has shifted left and now sees immigration differently. This may be the case because the Democratic Party has been moving left since the days of Kennedy who was a big proponent of lower taxes. Meanwhile the republicans are moving left with the democrats by no longer pushing for various unpopular social programs to offering less resistance to spending and holding off on social security reform.