Not that different. He managed to pass what he wanted with the help of Blue Dogs (as well as the fact that nothing else had been working).
Potentially less deficit spending at the outset.
That is certainly a possibility too.Actually, the conservative Democrats were somewhat skeptical of Kemp-Roth (they were more old-fashioned Harry Byrd spending-cutters than supply-siders) and helped get it watered down. (A 23 percent rate cut instead of 30, three years instead of two). So with a GOP majority, you might get full Kemp-Roth and (pace the Laffer curve) a larger deficit.
Major cutbacks to or even possible eradication of Johnson's Great Society Programs. I would like to think if GOP had the chance to do this, they would take it.
But given the seriousness of the ‘82 recession, I don’t think it was that much of a beatdown.. . . 1982 recession still results in a midterm beatdown . . .
It seems to me that the Boll Weevils were DINOs, either adopting Reagan’s platform in order to get re-elected or Republicans at heart who ran as Democrats because they started their careers in a time when a Republican couldn’t get elected.Nitpick: It was the Boll Weevils (the Conservative Democratic Forum) who helped Reagan get his program through Congress. This was a quite conservative, almost exclusively southern group. (The only northern Boll Weevil was Ronald Mottl of the Cleveland suburbs who was defeated for re-election in the 1982 primary when his old district was combined with another.) The Blue Dogs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition came later; they were much more middle-of-the-road and much less exclusively southern than the Boll Weevils.
The Boll Weevils indeed can be seen as a transitional group between the old Dixiecrats and the future Blue Dogs. They were young enough to focus on economic issues and not race. Yet some of them were old enough to have voted against civil rights bills in the 1960's...
Actually, the conservative Democrats were somewhat skeptical of Kemp-Roth (they were more old-fashioned Harry Byrd spending-cutters than supply-siders) and helped get it watered down. (A 23 percent rate cut instead of 30, three years instead of two). So with a GOP majority, you might get full Kemp-Roth and (pace the Laffer curve) a larger deficit.
I really encourage you to view the whole thing as far more quirky and just plain weird than any kind Republican or Democrat by-name classification.It seems to me that the Boll Weevils were DINOs, . . .