"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return
to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even
though we shall have conquered our enemies on the battlefields abroad,
we shall have yielded to the spirit of fascism here at home."
The "normalcy" of the 1920s that Roosevelt referred to was a time of peace and prosperity. The decade began with Republican President Warren Harding commuting the sentences of political prisoners jailed by the Wilson administration, including the socialist leader Eugene Debs. "Normalcy" meant the end to the Palmer raids aimed at rooting out dissidents, the end of economic rationing, the cessation of domestic surveillance and the state propaganda of the World War I years.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2013/04/24/right-wing-doesnt-equal-terrorist-n1576234/page/full/
The "normalcy" of the 1920s that Roosevelt referred to was a time of peace and prosperity. The decade began with Republican President Warren Harding commuting the sentences of political prisoners jailed by the Wilson administration, including the socialist leader Eugene Debs. "Normalcy" meant the end to the Palmer raids aimed at rooting out dissidents, the end of economic rationing, the cessation of domestic surveillance and the state propaganda of the World War I years.
Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2013/04/24/right-wing-doesnt-equal-terrorist-n1576234/page/full/
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