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[Somebody Somebody]

Well, worker's incomes went significantly up under Clinton for the first time in a generation. And this under a neo-liberal, welfare cutting administration that failed to achieve a substantial progressive legacy. Contrast this with the declining fortunes that Americans subsequently dealt with under Bush. 

It's not implausible to suggest that an economic recovery under a Democratic president, even a neo-liberal one, is likely to be more egalitarian than under a Republican executive, even in the absence of any major expansions of the welfare state.