Remember how much liberals admired Bob Dole back in ’96, when he said we should “build a bridge back to the 1950s?”

Over at Right Wing News today:

Hey, remember how much liberals and Democrats just loved Bob Dole back in ’96, when he wanted to “build a bridge back to the 1950s?”

No? Huh. Weird. Because you’d think they’d be all over that. Because, wow, what a paradise America must have been in the 1950s!

Ninety-one percent? Incredible! Amazing! So unbelievably progressive! What a wonderful time it must have been to be poor, disadvantaged, in need. If we even had any poor or disadvantaged, that is. If anyone actually was, in fact, in need.

How could anyone have been, with a top marginal income tax rate of 91%?

This was one of those posts where I started out thinking I had a grand and arching point to make, when as it turned out I just wanted to be snarky. But that’s okay. Snarky is good. Go read the whole thing.