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"It's the economy, stupid,"� was a useful slogan for the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign. Of course, it wasn't really true. The Clinton campaign was about much more than the economy. It was about "ending welfare as we know it,"� for example, and putting government on the side of those who "work hard and play by the rules"�"”all of this part of a broader redefinition of the Democratic party away from the failed liberalism of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. And the collapse of the Bush administration in 1992 was also, as it happens, about much more than the economy, which was in fact coming back strong in the fall of...