When was this? I’m 53 years old, and during my lifetime, the Republican Party has done a simply dreadful job on all of those things. In the last 30 years alone, just the Republican Administrations have spent more deficit money than all other US administrations put together. Foreign policy abroad has been a series of massive disasters and war crimes. And the PATRIOT Act suspended half the Bill of Rights, and allowed our government to systematically spy on its people.