Why Hillary Clinton's 90s nostalgia is so dangerous | Thomas Frank

Times were good in the last years of Bill Clinton's presidency. But to put the arch-deregulator in charge of an economy wrecked by financial bubbles is sheer folly

Donald Trump's campaign to "Make America Great Again" is one big, flatulent exercise in delusional nostalgia, as so many have noted. Given the likely outcome of the American presidential contest, however, it is Hillary Clinton's delusional nostalgia that may ultimately prove more harmful for the country.

Campaigning in Kentucky recently, she promised that, should she be elected, she would task former president Bill Clinton with "revitalizing the economy, because he knows how to do it". A few minutes before, she had recited her husband's qualifications for this job: "In the 90s, everybody's income went up, not just people at the top. We lifted more people out of poverty than at any time in our recent history." And so on.

Bill Clinton took some time out to dynamite the federal welfare system, then he came back and deregulated the banks