democrats and independents, and many of them want to see him get out there and do what politicians are supposed to do, mix it up. now fdr didn t have just one enemy, the rich. that was mostly in just a couple of speeches. he always had different, different targets. so sometimes he d use ridicule. there were these members of congress. he called them martin, barton, and fish. and it was funny and denigrating. where is the mean marjorie greene, leader of the republicans? stigmatizing the opposition is very much a part of politics. in today s situation with these gas prices, the president seems to be blaming the oil companies, the american oil companies, but he doesn t slam them, go after them the way i think jonathan, fdr did. you wrote the book on fdr s first 100 days. he, when it came to it, as i
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