I’m not here to throw a parade for Bill Clinton. The guy brought more baggage into the White House than a Southwest Airlines carousel. But let’s call a spade a spade: compared to today’s Democratic Party, Clinton looks like he was auditioning for a spot in President Trump’s cabinet.
Seriously, go back and listen to Clinton’s speeches from the 1990s. The man was up there on national television saying things that would get you kicked out of a modern Democrat debate faster than you can say “build the wall.” And yet, back then, these weren’t controversial positions. They were common sense.
Just take this quote from Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address. And no, this isn’t satire, this is word-for-word what he said:
“All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.
The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.”
Sound familiar? That’s not some forgotten Trump rally speech from 2016. That’s Democrat Bill Clinton, in front of Congress, making the case for stronger borders, cracking down on illegal hiring, speeding up deportations, and cutting off welfare for illegal aliens. If he said that today, AOC would be calling for his impeachment…again.
Elon Musk recently pointed out how Clinton’s platform back then was basically MAGA. And he’s not wrong. Clinton was a populist in many ways. He knew what working-class Americans were worried about, and he spoke directly to those concerns: jobs, illegal immigration, crime, welfare abuse. Today’s Democrats act like those issues are either imaginary or racist dog whistles. But in 1995? That was the party platform.
So what happened?
Simple. The Democrat Party got hijacked by radicals. What used to be a coalition of blue-collar workers and moderate liberals is now a circus of gender theory professors, open-border fanatics, and climate cultists. They don’t care about working Americans anymore. They care about fringe ideology and foreign citizens who break our laws to get here.
Clinton wasn’t perfect, not even close, but his policies, at least on issues like immigration, would be unrecognizable in today’s Democrat Party. Thirty years ago, border enforcement was bipartisan. Now, just suggesting it gets you labeled a fascist.
You don’t have to like Bill Clinton to admit that’s a pretty terrifying shift.
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