Stock Market hits an ALL-TIME high! Unemployment lowest in 16 years! Business and manufacturing enthusiasm at highest level in decades!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 5, 2017
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… Of a series nobody enjoyed the *first* time…
Thread, so bear with me. 1) 45's regime is an attempt to re-create the 1920s. Pres. Warren G. Harding was sexually corrupt and not smart.
— Carol Anderson (@ProfCAnderson) October 6, 2017
7) The 1924 National Origins Act banned immigration from Asia, limited it from non-protestant nations & privileged Anglo-Saxon Britain.
— Carol Anderson (@ProfCAnderson) October 6, 2017
11) That "moral rectitude" meant that poverty was solely a personal failing. Charities could step in to help but there was no role for govt
— Carol Anderson (@ProfCAnderson) October 6, 2017
19) MAGA looks backwards and creates a false '20s history of prosperity & peace; when it was anything but. This is 45's recipe for disaster.
— Carol Anderson (@ProfCAnderson) October 6, 2017
Matthew Yglesias, at Vox — “The Harriet Miers of the Fed is ready for a comeback”:
Back in the younger and more innocent days of January, 2006, then-President George W. Bush decided to appoint a nice-looking and well-off young man named Kevin Warsh to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors that he had no apparent qualification for…
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