Echoes of History

In 1932 a new president came to office, and there was an attempt to grab power from him via a coup. It was never as realized as the present assault on January 6. That president was seen as a clear and present danger to the corporations of his age. And they did what they could to slow things like the implementation of the social services, or the Works Progress Administration. Don’t get me started on social security and the minimum wage.

All these, to a one, were referred as radical, and communist. In fact, the GOP has been fighting these initiatives for over seventy years.

What is impressive though is the response from the progressive left. During the FDR administration, there were critics from the left as well. They thought the president was moving too slow and in some respects lying to the American people.

Joe Biden’s presidency has a similar impetus. In fact, his first hundred days look remarkably like those of Roosevelt. This is why he is pushing Congress to pass a $1.9 T bill that will help to revive economic activity. It is called the American Rescue Bill with good reason.

For FDR there was a similar reason:

The First New Deal began almost immediately upon Roosevelt’s assumption of the presidency. FDR invoked the “analogue of war” as he spurred Congress towards a flurry of legislative activity that became known as the “Hundred Days” — from March to June 1933 — in which the new President won passage of numerous bills designed to end the nation’s economic troubles. In…