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This isn't surprising, given the agenda of the so-called "conservative" right for the last 46 years..
It has nothing to do with the conservative right. Clinton signed the GLBA that was at the forefront of causes for the global financial crisis that resulted in the rise of fascism all over the western world. The problem is the US of A, first past the post and a two party system instead of a representative republic. Barbarians, in other words...
When George Bush Senior (remember him? I do..) was running for President in 1979 against Ronald Reagan it was he who coined the term "voo-doo economics" in response to the "trickle down" policies that Reagan cottoned on to that were promulgated by Arthur Laffer.
What Bush Sr. was saying was correct, in that deregulation wouldn't see as much capital as possible getting to those at the bottom as needed. He was stopped from this critical angle by Reagan offering him the VP's seat. so he shut up and took it.
It was the neo-liberal Bill Clinton just kept up the movement that started over a decade earlier.
We forget it was George Bush Sr. who put NAFTA on the table but it was Clinton who got to sign it (and take credit for it) as the trade negotiations it entailed took years to hammer out and were done AFTER Bush got voted out.. (this was why the GOP hated "Slick Willie" so much..) Clinton got credit for many of the policies that the Republicans put forth, and was more pro-business than many of them were. (The best they got on Clinton was the Monica Lewinsky affair, which they made into a Movie of the Week drama.)
All of the deregulation that allowed for consolidation of media and stepped up the rightward swing of politics really started however on Reagan's watch.
I was there, and been watching it happen since I was in high school in 1980.
Like I said, two faces of the same coin. One has a veneer of accountability the other is gung ho, both are serving the same masters. I was also there, on the receiving end of the effects of the increased deregulation on the working class and delocalisation of industry. Fuck the republicans and the democrats, both are the same shit parasitic class. At least with Trump the civilised world is waking up to the dangers of trusting anything coming out of the US.
Amen brother. This nation's gone full metal imbecile. It's going to take decades to come close to even sorting it out, if ever.