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We Ask Republicans, How Many More Times? [1]
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Date: 2025-01-17
Trump is warning us of a Great Depression. He said so. Out loud. In public. More than once even.
Gotta note here that Trump is pushing a massive amount of tariffs on imports. Much the same as the Smoot-Hawley act did during the 1930's Great Depression. Which served to greatly exacerbate and lengthen that depression. Republicans are incapable of learning. :-)
A republican president (Hoover) signed that bill into law. The sponsors of the bill (Smoot in the Senate and Hawley in the House) were both republican. And the House and the Senate were controlled by republicans. EXACTLY THE SAME AS NOW. :-)
The 1930's republican party was isolationist in much the same manner as republicans are today.
Hoover also ran on deporting Mexicans and scapegoating them for the depression and for taking American jobs. He deported nearly 2 million Mexicans and created an "American Jobs for Real Americans" movement.
History has seen this story before. And it was an ugly story. Full of mistakes and misconceptions. Yet, here we go again.
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