In the words of Herbert Hoover (1874-1964):
“Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of ‘emergency.’ It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And ‘emergency’ became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.”
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Hoover gets ripped by historians looking back with the allegedly 20/20 hindsight of today. I watched an American Experience episode about his life on Netflix. Most of the early programs signed into law by FDR at the onset of his administration had been waiting in a deadlocked Congress at the end of Hoover’s tenure. FDR gets all the credit. And it turned out Hoover was right anyway about government trying to solve the Depression. It went on for years afterward, FDR and his big government ways notwithstanding. All it did was sow the seeds of the later welfare state, which has bred dependency and turned in 6 Americans into a serf receiving a check.
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