By the Left March

Before the subjects of The Rebels became famous, the Democratic Party sold out. It is a long, sad and tawdry story that Joshua Green tells of the party of the New Deal and the United States’s labour unions betraying its roots to fill its purse from the financial industry and become the party of Wall Street. Jimmy Carter wanted to reform the tax code along the lines of “his simple Baptist decency”: “When a business executive can charge off a $55 luncheon on a tax return and a truck driver cannot deduct his $1.50 sandwich”, he said, “then we need basic tax reform.”