Is it the case that Republicans have ever been focused on fiscal responsibility and has kind of the gap between what the rhetoric is and what the record is changed over time?

Yeah.

So I think I mean, we go back to Eisenhower and a lot of people would probably look at Eisenhower as like the real deal in terms of fiscal responsibility, in terms of it.

And he's described as this kind of policy wonk president.

And and he seemed to take it very seriously that we should try to keep the budget down.

And then we move into the Reagan period.

And during Reagan, they had these economic ideas about how you could like cut taxes.

Are there any lessons from that broader research that that apply here? And are there you know, when do we actually have some kind of off ramp from those slowly developing problems?