I will repeat this as long as I have to, when the Supreme Court said in 1937 that the Social Security Act was “unconstitutional”, FDR didn’t ask people to vote harder in the next election, he told the Court he’d add more justices until they backed off, which they did.
If you want to understand why liberals always lose, even when they win, read the responses from the dudes who think the only difference between FDR and Biden is how many Democratic Senators there were. Really sad stuff.
I mean, at some point a leader has to fight back. That’s all I’m saying.
"Leadership" isn't counting how many votes you have before trying to fight for people's rights, or deciding in advance nothing will work. It means taking a stand, wielding whatever power you have, and pressuring or shaming people to follow you. If you lose - at least you tried!
Amazing how offended some people get when you suggest their leader could do better and maybe even learn from past leaders.
People pointing out that FDR won in huge landslide in 1936 and had big Congressional majorities: have you ever considered that his leadership in the four years of his first term, and his willingness to fight for people, had something to do with that? Maybe there's a lesson here?
As a historian, just fascinating to see how entrenched the myth is that FDR’s SCOTUS reform bill (smeared as “court packing”) was “overreach”, a “failure”, “shot down”. People don’t know that it ended in success for the New Deal and FDR, who never had to worry about SCOTUS again!
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