Covid-19 Ushered in a New Political Era

Fiscal conservatism, small government, are now passé

Since March 2020, the United States has undergone a fundamental political shift in what citizens expect from their government.

Ronald Reagan famously declared in 1981 that government is not the solution to the nation’s problems, “government is the problem.” Bill Clinton famously reiterated in 1996 that “the era of big government is over.” Barack Obama f…