excalibur
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Goes back years now, well before my time. In fact, to at least 1940.
Here's one whopper by FDR from 1944.
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Here's one whopper by FDR from 1944.
In his 1944 State of the Union address, FDR smeared the laissezāfaire Coolidge era of the 1920s as āthe spirit of fascism:ā
One of the great American industrialists of our dayāa man who has rendered yeoman service to his country in this crisis-recently emphasized the grave dangers of ārightist reactionā in this Nation. All clear-thinking businessmen share his concern. Indeed, if such reaction should developāif history were to repeat itself and we were to return to the so-called ānormalcyā of the 1920ā²sāthen 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.

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