Democratic victories are necessary for progress, but it’s only the threat of immanent fascism that has historically driven Democrats to make improvements.
Not true. It is firm control of congress and the presidency. That is what created the New Deal and the Civil Rights era.
“It was this administration which saved the system of private profit and free enterprise after it had been dragged to the brink of ruin.” President Roosevelt, on how his emergency actions in 1933 prevented a revolution and saved capitalism.
FDR was an elitist and a racist, but he understood that capitalism couldn’t survive that moment by continuing a hard line against interests of the citizenry. The new deal was another compromise to protect the establishment from causing it’s own destruction.
Not true. It is firm control of congress and the presidency. That is what created the New Deal and the Civil Rights era.
FDR was an elitist and a racist, but he understood that capitalism couldn’t survive that moment by continuing a hard line against interests of the citizenry. The new deal was another compromise to protect the establishment from causing it’s own destruction.