certainly the goal has been to undo the New Deal.
The New Deal created the middle class. The dismantling of organized labor has undercut the middle class, dismantling the New Deal would finish the job.
The dismantling of organized labor has shifted the onus of middle class maintenance to the public sector for some, and just an erosion of purchasing power for others.
The pace towards a more extreme bimodal distribution of wealth, income and opportunity in the US has been steady. It seems to me the only way to stall or reverse the trend is more progressive taxation, an increased role of government as the consumer (and indirectly jobs provider) and a federal takover of health care.
I see this as a direct consequence of dismantling organized labor, and a series of predatory trade/investment policies.
They made their bed. Now they have to try to sell the morality of an extreme bimodal distribution as being fundamentally more American and morally superior.
For some time they have been effective in selling that notion, I am inclined to think the chances for a reversal of that are good, but their successful efforts to put gov deeply in the red before hand gives them more leverage.
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