NINTY FOUR YEARS AGO WASHINGTON HAD BEEN IN REPUBLICAN CONTROL FOR TWELVE YEARS, BIG BUSINESS WAS ASCENDANT AND “THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT WAS BUSINESS”, TO HELL WITH “THE COMMON MAN”, OR WOMAN; THEN CAME THE 1929 CRASH AND A REVOLUTION. FROM MARCH TO JUNE 1933, IT TOOK 100 DAYS, NOT A GENERATION; AMERICA WAS REMADE.
IT WAS CALLED THE “NEW DEAL”: PRO LABOR LAWS, SOCIAL SECURITY AND MASSIVE PUBLIC SPENDING. AMERICA NEVER LOOKED BACK - UNTIL 2025 AND TRUMP 2.0, WHO IS PRESIDING OVER NOTHING-LESS THAN A COUNTER REVOLUTION ATTEMPTING TO WIPEOUT OUT THE “NEW DEAL.” THE QUESTION BEFORE THE NATION IS, WILL THE TRUMP COUNTERREVOLUTION SUCCEED AND STICK OR BE WASHED AWAY IN A LANDSLIDE?
I. INTRODUCTION
Most of the time national elections are about little things. In 1960 the presidential election was about a “missile gap” that didn’t exist and …
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