Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a home in Warm Springs.
I've thought 2020 has much in common with the 1932 FDR election.
Now that Biden is going to Warm Springs, that just clinches it.
(1932 was the Great Depression Democratic landslide)
nps.gov/nr/travel/pres…
I've thought 2020 has much in common with the 1932 FDR election.
Now that Biden is going to Warm Springs, that just clinches it.
(1932 was the Great Depression Democratic landslide)
nps.gov/nr/travel/pres…
https://twitter.com/conorsen/status/1320134614132920320
The GOP attitude toward the Great Depression was like the Trump-FOX attitude toward Covid: It's not the role of government to solve these problems, which should be left to private interests.
Of course, Biden is going because Georgia's turning blue.
Of course, Biden is going because Georgia's turning blue.
https://twitter.com/snowstormyou/status/1320140977693130752
We know what followed FDR's election.
When he came to office, the country was in the Great Depression. The level of income inequality made democracy almost impossible. There was no social security, no regulatory agencies, almost no middle class.
He changed all that.
When he came to office, the country was in the Great Depression. The level of income inequality made democracy almost impossible. There was no social security, no regulatory agencies, almost no middle class.
He changed all that.
FDR could accomplish so much partly because he had broad popular support, plus the Senate and the House. (The Court frustrated him a little bit [understatement]
We really need the Senate.
https://twitter.com/raortman/status/132014366240001229…
We really need the Senate.
https://twitter.com/raortman/status/1320143662400012289
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