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Combination of the Republican parties deal with the devil with the Falwell's coming due, nativist backlash to immigration generally (let alone reform), changing economics generally, and a (general) national lack-of-purpose post Cold War where we had no other great "forcing function" pushing the nation one way or another. Just making money for the sake of making money is fun for a little while but people grow bored with it rapidly, which is why Clintonism had short coattails ultimately

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