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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Mar 2020

    Herbert Hoover understood from the start how severe the Great Depression was and how lasting it would be. But in public he kept up a facade of positive thinking, because he wanted to promote confidence. From Hofstadter's American Political Tradition.pic.twitter.com/f1mNPSU1nj

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Mar 2020

        A lot of economic policy, particular as transmuted through politics, is more about psychology than money: "confidence" being a prerequisite for a robust economy. That's why Hoover & other presidents (notably Trump) so easily fall for mind-cures & "positive thinking"

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Mar 2020

        The underlying logic of Trump's response to the pandemic has been a "positive thinking" approach governed by a fixation on the economy, narrowly viewed through prism of stock market. Trump has staked his political success on stock market & that can't be allowed to fall.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Mar 2020

        The "positive thinking" angle is key. The author of The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) was Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of Trump's family church, where Trump's first marriage was held. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220 …

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      1. Kate Ottenberg‏ @KateOttenberg 6 Mar 2020
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      2. Philip 🍊‏ @philipoforange 6 Mar 2020
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        I always thought the branding of the financial crisis as The Great Recession was a turn of phrase to put a relatively less-dire face on what it was and has been historically speaking - a depression.

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      3. Matt "Dynamic Zero" Hardwick‏ @MattLabor 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @philipoforange @HeerJeet

        🤔💡Considering that "the Great Recession" comes off as profoundly sarcastic, this branding is either a Heroic Failure (to borrow from Stephen Pile's* book), or a Secret Success (to borrow from an Onion cult movie ranking system).

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      2. ...‏ @ernstlubinch 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Idc about all the revisionist opinions of Hofstadter now, I fucking love that book

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Mar 2020
        Replying to @ernstlubinch

        It's his one great book. The other stuff is problematic.

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      2. Steve Strickland‏ @SteveStricklan6 6 Mar 2020
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        And yet the crisis continued right up until the start of World War II

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