r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • Jul 27 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ To put it plainly.

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u/IrishwolffMutt Jul 27 '26

FDR’s post world war 2 social democratic policies lead to the strongest middle class the country ever had. But Trump calls it communism and the greatest threat to the country. Pathetic

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u/Ok-Volume-3657 Jul 27 '26

Except for black people at the time (G.I Bill, Jim Crow laws still in effect yo!)

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u/omicron-7 Jul 27 '26

They don't like to mention that part. Or that he put japanese Americans in internment camps.

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u/LTParis Jul 27 '26

You're not wrong. FDR did some terrible, horrible, no good things. But let's also throw nuance into the picture that some things he did were good.

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u/Potential-Drawing745 Jul 29 '26

German Americans too.

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u/locontendere Jul 28 '26

Yep.

The reason why the Dixiecrats were tolerated in the Democratic Party was because, in exchange for Southern support for the Democrats' economic agenda, the national party agreed to mostly look the other way as Dixiecrats unequally distributed federal funds in their states.