yeah new deal is taught in HS as some kind of coherent economic program by a visionary fdr rather than an absolutely insane fascistic madcap hodgepodge of completely off the wall shit that at various points made things better and also much much worse depending on the componenthttps://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1450484535162978308 …
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amity schlaes wrote a book about it recently, may be good and might reflect my views but i havent read it and cant vouch for thishttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0060936428/
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recommendation from comments, also know nothing about this unfortunately (?) my views were just picked up piecemeal from grad school papers and lorehttps://twitter.com/FreeSoilAndrew/status/1450487284927635462?t=AG9iRhcbRRmZgjCIAhmxRw&s=19 …
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sumner whos generally p sharp has a book maybe on the monetary sidehttps://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1450489458193805315?t=7Wz8Wexs_q3AX7s7yDP5fA&s=19 …
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history is like a compressed image; you lose facts & context, the gist is still there but folks don't even know how much is lost. "The New Deal was visionary and great"pic.twitter.com/yL3BxkERp2
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a lot of internet arguments I see are people telling happy abstracted stories about what the compressed image shows (we've made real strides on racism in the USA) to people who have seen the high fidelity image plot twist it doesn't go well
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