Today begins the official political season of 2024, the fall countdown to election day and inauguration day, and the start of billions of dollars raised by morbidly rich rightwingers that will be pouring into our media, email, and phones.
The Democratic Convention was really rocking (I was broadcasting live from the SiriusXM booth), laying out both the horrors of Republican red state governance and expanding the good-for-America-and-the-middle-class programs that President Biden first signed into law almost four years ago. He’s stopped inflation and given us the highest stock market, best jobs numbers, and fastest return of factories to America in over 50 years.
It all raises a critical question: How did America go so far astray after FDR saved us from the Republican Great Depression? And what can we learn from FDR that can help Democrats win elections and put America back together again?
For the answer, and an insight into how to best fight GOP policies, we need to go back 50 years.