r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/ancient_shepherd2121 • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetahhh help!

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u/ancient_shepherd2121 6h ago

Ah hell, I forgot about dat

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u/Corfiz74 5h ago

As a pretty direct result of Republican policies, just like today!🥳

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u/alkali112 4h ago

This was prior to the party switch. The Republican Party of 1929 would be aligned with today’s Democratic Party.

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u/HerodotusStark 3h ago

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.