What I find interesting in all this....
There is a current mind-set to blame the GOP (Hoover, Smoot-Hawley Tariff) for the Great Depression.
Note that these are the same liberals, and, faux-cons who support Liberal Free Trade Globalism.....they are the ones who bash the GOP of the 20’s and 30’s, but yet support all of FDRs Liberal Free Trade Globalist ideas (FDR, through the UN, is the father of GATT, WTO, modern free trade movement...FDR, the guy who liked his Uncle Joe [Stalin])
I get a kick out of all those who will bash FDR for his domestic policies.....yet are lock-step, goose-step with him on Free Trade Globalism. I did not there was a choice of flavors of Communism at the local Socialism Store
Hoover made some mistakes in handling the economy at this time, but, he inherited a huge mess that was festering for years. No matter what people think about Hoover....he was not FDR....FDR installed socialism in America....and Free Trade Globalism and Communism throughout the world.
I support free trade. Who are you to tell me (through government edicts and tariffs) where I should buy things from?. It’s not your business.
What I find interesting is that it looks likely that a strong liberal followed a weak conservative administration in both Obama’s and FDR’s case, which in turn led to socialistic heyday for the libs. What we need more than anything is a very strong conservative, but the likes or RR are few and far between.