Undo ALL of Joe Biden’s efforts to emulated FDR in bringing America OUT of the Covid years…..
Send America BACK to Pre -Great Depession when private Business ran things….
When Women and Minorities had little to NO Rights….
White MALE America….
A America that was inward….
2025 Right Wing Nuts….
Smiling as they have theier puppet working to take the ‘Great Sociaty’ and ‘New Deal’apart brick by brick….
And Working on the LARGEST American Taxing EVER to boot!
“Making America GREAT AGAIN’????
Cept Roosevelt rode on coming OUT ofn a Depression….
Trump is working HARD to create one….
Lousy Politics….
If there’s a mirror image opposite to Donald Trump’s second-term blitz, it’s Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose first 100 days in office is the model for presidents who want to get things done.
The only president to serve more than two terms, Roosevelt remade government, used his bully pulpit and realigned political coalitions, all things Trump sees himself doing.
Trump, working with Elon Musk, wants to re-define Americans’ relationship with government by firing federal workers, dismantling long-functioning agencies, and branding as much government spending as possible as wasteful. He’s also realigning global trade and reworking international alliances as quickly as possible.
Roosevelt, working with Congress, had public backing to do whatever was necessary to pull the US out of the Great Depression. He built government up with the New Deal, convinced Americans that government spending could improve their daily lives and put people to work, created the social safety net with Social Security, broke down barriers to trade and helped create a system of alliances.
I took the concept of Trump as a kind of anti-Roosevelt to Eric Rauchway, a distinguished professor of history at the University of California, Davis and the author of multiple books on Roosevelt, including, most recently, “Why the New Deal Matters.”
Our conversation, edited for length and style, and conducted by video chat, is below:
Trump has been compared to a sort of anti-FDR
WOLF: I’ve seen the argument made in the press that Trump in his second term is trying to act like FDR, but in reverse. Stephen Bannon recently talked about how this moment in US politics is like a 1932-style realignment. As an expert on FDR, what do you think when you see those arguments?
RAUCHWAY: Well, it certainly seems like the president’s policies are opposite to those of the New Deal. He seems to be taking apart regulatory mechanisms. He seems to be drawing down public investment in a variety of areas, including the arts and so forth. He seems to be, as far as I can tell, diminishing resources sent to the Social Security Administration, which of course is the central piece of the New Deal’s proto-welfare state. Substantively, these policies are the opposite of the New Deal….
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How is Roosevelt able to buck that trend and get more seats in that pivotal first midterm, which set the pace for his entire presidency?
RAUCHWAY: If you look at not only the election of ‘34, but then again, the landslide of ‘36, the evidence is that Roosevelt attracted voters based on the success of his policies. He had come into office in 1933 because voters were well and truly sick of the Great Depression and the Hoover administration seemed incapable of meeting the needs of the moment, and then you had a recovery that began immediately on Roosevelt coming into office, largely, I think, a lot of economists would now tell you as a result of his monetary and other policies.
With that recovery gaining momentum through the course of his first two years in office, that accounts for his party’s increased popularity come 1934 and even more so in ‘36. Some folks say they can show that Roosevelt’s big gains in ‘36 came where incomes went up most over that first term. So it’s the success of the policies in material terms that seem to have led to those large majorities at the midterm elections and then again in the ‘36 elections.
What most Americans miss about FDR
WOLF: What is the thing that you wish more Americans knew about Roosevelt? What do they get wrong when they corner you in the grocery store aisle?
RAUCHWAY: I wish people cared enough to corner me in the grocery store about these things. I think a lot of folks have really forgotten how materially successful the New Deal was over the first two terms, even before mobilization for the war, because mobilization for the war was then such a major spur to the economy afterwards, that really Roosevelt and his party wouldn’t have been able to do the things that they did do to transform government were it not for the successes of those policies in the first term.
WOLF: So be successful. That’s your advice to presidents.
RAUCHWAY: Good politics is good policy and vice versa….
Protest 2025 was last Sunday;
Your headline should refer to Project 2025.
Thanks DSD…..
Miss ya…..