Progressives' new favorite idea isn't new at all; it's as old as Woodrow Wilson.
Specifically, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the impulses behind it.
The need to prepare for war marked the end of the New Deal.
As FDR put it, it was time for "Dr. New Deal" to be replaced by "Dr. Win the War.".
Ironically, the New Deal itself was largely about war mobilization - without war.
Nearly the entire structure of the New Deal was copied from Wilson's "War socialism." The National Recovery Administration was modeled on the War Industries Board.
Wilson's war socialism, FDR's New Deal, Harry Truman's Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, Jimmy Carter's declaration that the energy crisis was a "Moral equivalent of war," and Barack Obama's "New foundation for growth," with his Thomas Friedman-inspired talk about "Sputnik moments": It's all the same idea gussied up as something new.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-recycles-wilson-fdr-socialism/
Specifically, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the impulses behind it.
The need to prepare for war marked the end of the New Deal.
As FDR put it, it was time for "Dr. New Deal" to be replaced by "Dr. Win the War.".
Ironically, the New Deal itself was largely about war mobilization - without war.
Nearly the entire structure of the New Deal was copied from Wilson's "War socialism." The National Recovery Administration was modeled on the War Industries Board.
Wilson's war socialism, FDR's New Deal, Harry Truman's Fair Deal, John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, Jimmy Carter's declaration that the energy crisis was a "Moral equivalent of war," and Barack Obama's "New foundation for growth," with his Thomas Friedman-inspired talk about "Sputnik moments": It's all the same idea gussied up as something new.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/green-new-deal-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-recycles-wilson-fdr-socialism/
The Antithesis of Green
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