Posted on 10/21/2008 7:56:35 AM PDT by Impy
Editors and statesmen of every capital in the world last week responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election (TIME. Nov. 9) with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of Der Führer Adolf Hitler. In Moscow a high Soviet official cried: ''We are extremely gratified!" Rome climbed on the band wagon with eulogistic comparisons of President Roosevelt to Dictator Mussolini and Fascist editors recalled his refusal to join the League of Nations in Sanctions against Italy. Geneva newspapers said that not since Woodrow Wilson has any U. S. President been so nearly in sympathy with the League. In Paris, the Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum, who has tried to give his country a modified form of New Deal (TIME, June 15 et seq.), joined the Chamber of Deputies in rejoicing.
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Lets break their widdle hearts this time.
Obama is an exponent of the “führerprinzip” of Der Führer.
This is wierd. TIME does realize that we had another depression in 1937, and that Roosevelt left the world to its own devices when Hitler started invading, right? If this article is supposed to be timely again, I don’t know if it will have the desired effect.
Great find!
Time didn’t underneath this. I found it browsing their archives and and I think it’s timely for NObama reasons.
But, still voting...............
“I think it’s timely for NObama reasons.”
I agree, with the caveat that Roosevelt was being re-elected. But the part about the world’s rapture is important to remember, especially given how horribly FDR handled our own economy and the world’s security in the aftermath of the war.
In the 1936 popular vote FDR won 60%-36%. In 84 the popular vote was 58.7-40.6. The other monster year off the top of my head was Nixon v McGovern in 72. (520-17, 96.7-3.2, 60.6-37.5)
Can you imagine ever seeing number like that again? Holy mandates, batman. So it seems to me, the all time electoral greats are 1. FDR, 1936 2. Reagan, 1984, 3. Nixon, 1972.
I wonder how many people would expect to find Nixon in the top 3. All of FDR's wins were monstrous, but 1936 was the biggest. Both of Reagan's wins were big also, but 1984 was the bomb. Interesting to note in both cases, it was a RE-election that garnered the highest votes.
I think Nixon's victory is a testament to McGovern more than anything else, and the extreme atmosphere of the times.
OK, I'm done. Just some interesting data. I find it as interesting as old Babe Ruth stats.
The mid-30s — High Noon of Fascism in the world. And FDR was in the middle of it.
One more note: People clearly LOVED FDR. If I were a presidential aspirant, I would study FDR. Reagan supposedly did. His frequent TV addresses to the people were his fireside chats. I’ve yet to see a president since Reagan buy a clue and emulate FDRs communication strategy.
IIRC, the largest PV margin was LBJ over Goldwater in '64. Not the biggest EV margin, but neither Reagan or Nixon beat Johnson's PV swamping of Goldwater. So much for the "conservatism wins every time it's tried" bromide.
LBJ in ‘64 got the highest ever % of the popular vote. 61.05% despite losing several states. He carried the northeast by ridiculous margins.
Also the opposition to FDR in 1940 and 1944 was respectable. About 45 and 46% of the vote respectively.
Here's the website where I get my stats--it's a cool place to learn some history.
They all had the same basic idea: government centralized command and control.
Look at some of the state totals in '84. Reagan came very close to a 50-state sweep. MN was in the range of 1% or less for Mondull. That would have been very, very sweet. How far we have fallen since then. The electorate has really shifted leftward over the last generation, but we're seeing the effects of school children coming of age who were taught by 1960s radicals who became schoolteachers. That's the way the leftists do it, get the future generations on board.
Going back to '36, look at some of the state totals. Something like 98%-99% for Roosevelt in places like SC and other Southern states. Amazing. You don't see percentages like those except in third-world banana republics.
Sadly, I must agree. Our nation's yoots have been subverted for too long, and it's probably even worse than I imagine.
Going back to '36, look at some of the state totals. Something like 98%-99% for Roosevelt in places like SC and other Southern states. Amazing.
Yup. Say what you will about FDR's policies, you simply have to tip your cap to his potency at the ballot box. Reagan also deserves awe and respect for what he was able to do. The numbers, especially when you look at the map, are mind boggling.
That was the "Lincoln effect", I think. How long was it until the old Confederacy voted for a GOPer? I think it was Goldwater, actually.
I am very worried about this year being another '32 for the 'Pubs. That's why I have to poo-poo the notion of some on FR who view an Obama presidency as a doorway to a rebound in 2010 and 2012. No doubt 'Pubs thought that way in '32 when Hoover (that "RINO") got the boot. The way was open for "true conservatives" to sweep back in come 1936. Well, look what happened. So people now think we're going to get another Reagan in 2012? We might just end up with another Alf Landon instead.
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