Middle Class Squeeze Quotes
Under the Republican George W. Bush administration, the economic meltdown of 2008 triggered the Great Recession where the middle class bore the economic and emotional brunt. In 2012, the Republicans were in the midst of their primary elections for their Presidential nominee. There were 4 candidates in a vicious campaign where they trashed and attacked each other trying to pander to the right wing of the Party who tended to control the primaries. So all of the candidates were opposed to all the laws that Congress had made to prevent another economic disaster and in addition to repealing those, would roll back most of the executive orders and regulations to prevent another Banking debacle.
