Posted on 07/18/2019 10:08:53 AM PDT by DFG
I can imagine Trump at some point next year getting up and saying, “Never before in all our history have these forces [the media and the opposition party] been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
Actually those are the words of President Franklin Roosevelt in his last major campaign speech before the 1936 election. FDR didn’t refer to the media outlets that opposed him (like the Chicago Tribune) as “the enemy of the people.” Instead, he called them “the Tory press.” And what did he mean by the term “Tory”? Subtle, perhaps, but it meant they were anti-American.
FDR was much less subtle in 1932 when he compared Republicans to the Tories of the American Revolution who “left the country.” Here is FDR’s actual statement:
There are two ways of viewing the government’s duty in matters affecting economic and social life. The first sees to it that a favored few are helped and hopes that some of their prosperity will leak through, sift through, to labor, to the farmer, to the small businessman. That theory belongs to the party of Toryism, and I had hoped that most of the Tories left this country in 1776. But it is not and never will be the theory of the Democratic Party.
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FDR was wrong, once again. The Tories would not have left in 1776 when the British were still very much in control. They would have felt more compelled to leave in 1783 when the Revolution was over and the peace treaty had been signed.
All i can say is THANK GOD for Donald Trump- I can’t think of any other person who would have stood up to the crap that the left has foisted on this country like Donald has! He was the right president at the right time- and the demonic foaming-at-the-mouth rantings from the left are proof positive! He is exposing their nasty nasty agenda for the world to see, like no other president would have I believe-
Not the “Tory press”.
More like “Pravda”.
MUCHLY AGREED!!!
Amen, brother!
My father, thank God, was a follower of the “Tory press”. I wish the “Tory press” still existed.
The Squad is the future of the Democrat Party. LOL! The Democrats passed their future off to a bunch of morons!
No, more like “Der Sturmer’’.
” “The Squad”, getting their collective asses kicked by an old white guy”
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That particular phrase should be included in the tee-shirt collection the crew is attempting to sell to the public.
In 1936 Al smith and Norman Thomas both accused FDR of being a socialist.
Thomas was the leading socialist of America and Smith was a largely forgotten democratic leader at the time.
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