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The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt (Required Reading)
The American Spectator ^
| December 20, 2021, 10:05 PM
| Francis P. Sempa
Posted on 12/23/2021 3:49:30 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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Close study of the KGB files revealed in the 1990s shows that Roosevelt was manipulated by Stalin to a shocking degree. Pick up and read the source books this writer names. Diana West’s American Betrayal, Whittaker Chambers’ Witness, James Burnham’s The Web of Subversion, M. Stanton Evans’ and Herbert Romerstein’s Stalin’s Secret Agents, John Earl Haynes’ and Harvey Klehr’s Venona, Herbert Romerstein’s and Eric Breindel’s The Venona Secrets, (to name only a few) that have revealed the fellow travelers and Soviet agents — Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, Lauchlin Currie, and so many others — who, in James Burnham’s words, “assembled in Washington under the careless scepter of Franklin Roosevelt.”
To: Chad C. Mulligan
About the only positive thing I'm willing to say about FDR is that he appointed Ike.
To: Gay State Conservative
I have nothing good to say about FDR.
He was Stalin without the skill and opportunity.
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posted on
12/23/2021 3:57:34 AM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: Gay State Conservative
A+ on the war
F on the economy
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:01:50 AM PST
by
joshua c
(Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
To: Chad C. Mulligan
FDR’s 90% tax rates on businesses really spurred the economy though! /s
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:03:55 AM PST
by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
To: Jewbacca
On the plus side, he DID know how to get Lucy Mercer, Missy LeHand, and Crown Princess Märtha to wax his weasel like a wheelchair Jeffrey Epstein...
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:04:55 AM PST
by
kiryandil
(China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
To: Jewbacca
Without Ike we could very well have lost the war. Just sayin’...
To: Chad C. Mulligan
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:14:25 AM PST
by
gopno1
To: Chad C. Mulligan
FDR as a "great" president is BS manufactured by left-wing historians. Read The Forgotten Man.
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:21:50 AM PST
by
Renkluaf
To: Renkluaf
Lincoln was a great president is another government propaganda success. Then again, winners get to write the history.
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:42:50 AM PST
by
Ikeon
(Let's do things the stupid way, because its easier for you. )
To: Jewbacca
My Grandfather, a business man, told me FDR was the great American Wrecker
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posted on
12/23/2021 4:48:39 AM PST
by
justrepublican
(Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial........)
To: justrepublican
One thinks about how divided we are today.....we have always been a deeply divided country.
Of course, now the takers outnumber the makers. We will have to take the country back by ballots or bullets if need be.
Or be lost and scattered to the wind like ancient Judah.
To: Chad C. Mulligan
What tends to be forgotten is that FDR was one of Woodrow Wilson's proteges, serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in his Administration. One of Wilson's core beliefs was in the desirability of a powerful bureaucracy over squabbling ELECTED politicians.
"The functions of government are in a very real sense independent of legislation, and even constitutions, because [they are] as old as government and inherent in its very nature. The bulk and complex minuteness of our positive law, which covers almost every case that can arise in Administration, obscures for us the fact that Administration cannot wait upon legislation, but must be given leave, or take it, to proceed without specific warrant in giving effect to the characteristic life of the State." ["Notes for Lectures at the Johns Hopkins," January 26, 1891, Papers of Woodrow Wilson Vol. 7, p. 121]
While FDR is indeed responsible for his own actions like 'Court Packing', he does come from the infamous heritage of the 1880s-1920s Progressivism/Populism. While they were not 'specifically' Socialist or Communist, it is instructive how influenced they were from German & European intellectuals and proposals.
For a LENGTHY treatment on the ancestry of the SWAMP, I recommend this 2007 monograph from Heritage Foundation / Hillsdale College; "The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government". The above Wilson quote comes from this paper.
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posted on
12/23/2021 5:57:10 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
To: Gay State Conservative
Re: FDR and "Ike"
See "The Cardinal Spellman Story" by Robert I. Gannon, S.J., Doubleday & Company, New York, 1962.
Chapter 14, "President Roosevelt", pages 222-248.
Years before Yalta and Ike's "Operation Keelhaul" ...
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posted on
12/23/2021 5:57:20 AM PST
by
jamaksin
( )
To: Chad C. Mulligan
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posted on
12/23/2021 6:00:53 AM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(I'm in the control group. I identify as "vaccinated".🤡)
To: Gay State Conservative
Thought experiment: Imagine if Donald Trump had the skill to wield the powers of the office that FDR possessed.
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posted on
12/23/2021 6:04:34 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
To: Gay State Conservative
oh; you mean the politician
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posted on
12/23/2021 6:07:02 AM PST
by
aumrl
(let's keep it real Conservatives )
To: justrepublican
["Come along. We're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt" Peter Arno]
You might like this 1930's New Yorker Magazine cartoon, bearing in mind that from the start, this magazine was firmly on the left. At the start it was a genteel and rather avant-garde leftism as opposed to the contemporary raging LEFTism.
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posted on
12/23/2021 6:07:27 AM PST
by
SES1066
(Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
To: Chad C. Mulligan
FDR was the worst. He started, with social security, the idea that government would take care of us, birth to death. People were no longer responsible for their lives and look where we are today.
Give us more, we are victims. It is not up us, it is up to you, government.
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posted on
12/23/2021 6:10:29 AM PST
by
mulligan
(an En bbnnEeThe to)
To: SES1066
“the desirability of a powerful bureaucracy over squabbling ELECTED politicians”
We have that today in spades, much larger than in the 30s. After all, they have had 80+ years to grow and perfect it.
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