FDR literally changed the rules for how to calculate the date of Thanksgiving (from "the last Thursday of November" to "the *fourth* Thursday of November") because it so happened that that year (1939) it would add an extra week of Christmas shopping and boost the economyhttps://twitter.com/dynamicsymmetry/status/1329826132997320706 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Republicans even boycotted "Franksgiving" for a few years after that and still held their Thanksgiving on the last Thursday
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Replying to @SteveLemongello
The tradition of Republicans becoming performatively furious at every single thing a popular Democratic president does and calling him a tyrant is, yes, also a time-honored American custom
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