Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
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President Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, left nothing to the imagination on Feb. 9 when he tweeted a line from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address: “Action, and action now.”
Klain repeated the allusion in another tweet a week later, and even more recently posted side-by-side photos of the Biden and Roosevelt cabinets. All this has positioned the chief of staff as the flag-carrier for an emerging political construct aiming to associate Biden’s policies with the New Deal.
Comparisons between Biden and Roosevelt are proliferating in political commentary.
The country demands bold, persistent experimentation..The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.