I wrote in 2010 that Keynesian economics is like the Freddy Krueger movies. It refuses to die despite powerful evidence that you don’t help an economy by increasing the burden of government. In 2014, I wrote the theory was based on “fairy dust.” And in 2015, I said Keynesianism was akin to a perpetual motion machine.
What’s my proof? Well, during the period when Obama’s “stimulus” was in effect, unemployment got worse. 
And the best growth period under Obama was after the sequester, which Obama and others said was going to hurt the economy.
When I discuss these issues with Keynesians, they reflexively claim that Obama would have gotten good results if only he had increased spending even faster (which is also their knee-jerk response when you point out that Keynesianism didn’t work for Hoover, didn’t work for FDR, didn’t work…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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