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by throwaway123156 2647 days ago
Was Bill Clinton appreciably more conservative than Jimmy Carter, the last Dem President before Clinton?
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Very much so. Clinton trimmed the welfare rolls, cut the number of federal employees, deregulated finance, deregulated telecom (though Carter was also a major deregulator, having deregulated airlines, trucking, and beer), signed NAFTA, signed DADT, signed DOMA, signed RFRA, passed aggressive violent crime legislation, etc.