Heard that too, and it was great. Sometimes helps to have the longer perspective.

Yes. And tho Trump’s treatment of immigrants is loathsome, Dems nd to realize they must moderate (not eliminate!) rates of immigration and get rid of abuses of asylum system, or voters wl swing to Trump again. Not just here either; it’s an issue fueling the far right in Europe, Japan, elsewhere.

Just showed this to my 15 y/o son and now he’s walking around the house whistling Woody Guthrie. Go, Boomertifa!

Really important.

Won’t matter much since LA can’t build anything anyway.

Yup. Ffs DNC, run moderate sane candidates in getable swing districts and states. Period.

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This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Trump will bail them out for now, but wonder what happens to them long term?

The President of the United States is personally shaking down companies for millions of dollars, into his own pocket.

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Yes. Or too deep in the pockets of the businesses. Infuriating that this has not been banned.

This was completely predictable from the beginning. One more of several predatory businesses that sees Americans purely as victims to be fleeced.

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Great cartoon of both Presidential mugs on inauguration day (tho New Yorker never ran it bc FDR had just survived an assassination attempt while sitting in an open car, and New Yorker didn’t wanna tempt fate).

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Freedom from Fear. Terrif overviews of both Presidents, and how they wrestled with the Depression.

Ah, not to make you feel like you gotta eat crow! And Hoover did have a notoriously lugubrious mug. Tho to be fair, he was pretty run down & stressed by the end of his term. Both he and FDR were complex ppl, unexpected twists and turns to them. If yr interested at all, I loved David Kennedy’s book…

Yes, I remember those days. Had a cancer diagnosis - melanoma, caught vy early before it cd even be staged, so here I still am - but I was completely uninsurable while self-employed. Obamacare was a lifesaver for me.

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Yes, I suppose that’s true. FDR had a dress rehearsal of 4 yrs as Governor of NY during the Depression’s early and worst yrs. And to be fair, it was a crisis like nothing we’ve seen before or since - FDR of course didn’t entirely defeat it either til massive Keynesian spending of WWII.

In one tweet lol!

I think that is a terrific description of FDR, sums him up as well as he can be summed.

Yeah, I think that’s putting it brilliantly. FDR’s still a fascinating figure; his sinuousness is deeply cynical at times yet the source of a lot of what he accomplished to mk life better.

Yes, one of his big personal flaws seems to have been just that he was very rigid in spite of being vy intelligent. Opposite to supple FDR who was vy willing to experiment.

dismissed FDR as lightweight rich boy, and they weren’t totally wrong. Yet somehow w all his flaws, at key moments like banking crisis, New Deal legislation, Lend-Lease, he did what was needed. History’s weird.

Yes, Hoover’s sort of an interesting guy in a way. Somebody who shd’ve been a good President on paper - vy intelligent, hard-working, a success in several fields, an effective humanitarian. But he was a lousy politician and just didn’t grasp that new approaches were needed. Otoh, plenty of ppl…

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Oh, I did. Spent abt three weeks in Aug and 3 in Oct in and around Bucks County & ctl Philly knocking doors; canvassed for several D Cong’l candidates in CA too. Lot of things cd be argued re Ds’ campaign approach, but the voter shifts & turnout around Philly were interesting & somewhat dismaying.

show crime isn’t that bad” is vy unlikely to convince you to vote Dem. W immigration, the asylum system really was broken. Complex, but on all of these issues I think there was a mixture of misinformation and Dem mishandling.

I think that’s partly true, but partly ppl were responding to real things (and Ds dismissed inflation at the time too). Neighborhoods where I canvassed in Philly really did hv problems w crime; not necessarily violent crime but if yr car’s been broken into, a Dem pol saying “actually statistics…