economics and lowering taxes so there will be lots of jobs, the trickle down idea was also just a trojan horse and something that they didn t really believe. yeah, lower taxes for everybody, but all we really care about is lowering taxes for the rich and big business. and the thing about when i started doing my research about evil geniuses, i knew, reagan got elected in 1980, i didn t realize until i did this massive amount of research how much change, what a gigantic shift that was. of course, as we spoke about the other day, it was being built up in the 70s, this alternate paradigm, this conservative counterestablishment was sending people like joe scarborough to congress. but really the before and after in the 80s is so stark in so many ways. really as big a change as the 6 0s or the 30s, which is why i call what happened the raw deal,