As Pat Buchanan, the future White House communications director for President Reagan, put it: The “busing of economic parasites and political illiterates” to the polls would mean the end of the insurgent New Right.

"I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

you don’t actually agree with Republicans in their fight to reduce government spending, because that’s not the fight they are having. They fight for policies that give less to the needy and more to the wealthy. Otherwise when they were in control they would actually reduce government spending.