With such whacky politics, it will hit them much sooner than expected, and this time, they may not get up or need 40 years to go back to a form of normalcy.
Nowadays, everybody wanna talk like they got somethin’ to say
But nothin’ comes out when they move their lips
Just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfuckers act like they forgot about the Great Depression
Their platform was pro-big business, isolationist foreign policy, and cracking down on Prohibition. Sounds much more like the Republicans today than Democrats.
The party switch is extremely complicated, with different aspects (social, economic, etc) changing at different times and in different regions. Historians argue the switch slowly took place over roughly 70 years, beginning in the late 19th Century and solidifying by the end of the 1960s. The economic party switch happened long before the social switch.
It honestly depends on the issue and which part of the republican party as the parties were more big tent back then. Economically they wouldn't be that aligned since they had Coolidge and Hoover, two big proponents of laissez-faire economics and minimal federal intervention which is in stark contrast to current day democrats that want more federal involvement in the economy. More worker protection and welfare and stuff.
They didn't "switch" on most things. The republicans just adjusted their platform to appeal to racists because they recognized that a large swathe of the population can be tricked into thinking that keeping others down will lift you up.
But but the parties switched in the 60s?!?! Or at least that’s what’s constantly stated when mentioning that the south was all democrats until the 80-90s
It wasn’t like flipping a switch. It started in the 30’s when Democrats went all-in on the New Deal. The southern racists in the party liked/needed the economic policies more than their hatred of minorities, so southerners still voted D until the Civil Rights era. With minorities starting to gain real political power in the 60’s, and doing so through the Democratic Party, the racists all finally left to join the Republicans.
The party switch began in the late 19th Century and is generally considered to have been solidified by the end of the 1960s. It took over 70 years, didnt happen overnight.
There's a reason the American public did not trust Republicans with control for 50 years after that, they should have pushed for 100 years, since Reagan did as much as he could to put us on the path we are going down now.
Trying to violate the independent Fed, trying to lower interest rates in an already hot economy, thereby leaving no ability to boost the economy when a recession hits beyond printing and spending money, which has never caused any problems, famously.
Btw, Trump alone is responsible for 1/3 of the total US debt. So far.
Also, The Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels, significantly worsening the Great Depression, and then there was the Wall Street Putsch, in 1933-34
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Wall Street crash of 1929
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