Mentions (9)
"In similiar situations, teddy gave us national parks, fdr the new deal, lbj the civil rights act. We get beautiful caitlin."
"Thomas Hart Benton - Aross the Curve of the Road (1938)
Erle Loran - Minnesota Highway (1934)
Kenjiro Nomura - The Farm (1934)
Arthur E. Cederquist - Old Pennsylvania Farm in Winter (1934)
Leo Breslau - Plowing (1934)"
"The right-wing political project for the entirety of the post-war period in the United States was devoted to overturning the New Deal, which they finally got with Ronald Reagan, an overturning that was so total and successful that the nominally oppositional Democrats were forced to abandon the New D"
"Democrats collaborated with Republicans to dismantle the New Deal for my entire lifetime, but are surprised that the public doesn't care about DOGE. Even before my lifetime, really. Started with Carter, ramped up with Clinton, became the bipartisan consensus that government can't do anything effecti"
"If you structure the economy in such a way that it takes away a large portion of working class jobs while at the same time stripping away the New Deal social safety net, knowing that people without access to jobs or aid starve to death, that's no different than if you knowingly left someone to die o"
"The Rural Electrification Act was one of FDR's signature New Deal programs. Very beautiful, hopeful messaging."
"Back when the Euro social democracies were emerging, and with FDR and the New Deal, the ruling classes seemed to understand that you had to give something back, both to keep the population in line and because people had to have the money to buy your products and services, you could not rack up endle"
"it's the middle of the great depression, an unimaginably bad (from our perspective) economic downturn, and America manages to create this huge outflowing of public art, paying thousands of unemployed people to do it. It's really (and again, I don't know the history well enough to know that this isn'"
"The Rural Electrification Act was one of FDR's signature New Deal programs."