Hillary loves the '90s! But she can't bring them back.

Hillary wants Bill to "bring back the kind of economy that worked for everybody in the 1990s." Sorry, but he can't.

Bill and Hillary Clinton in 1992.
(Image credit: TIM CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Bill Clinton didn't create the 1990s economic boom when he was this nation's 42nd president. So how could he bring it back as America's first "first gentleman"?

He can't. But Hillary Clinton really wants voters to think he can. The likely Democratic presidential nominee is now telling audiences that she's going to put her hubby "in charge of revitalizing the economy… to help bring back the kind of economy that worked for everybody in the 1990s."

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.