This article linked below is a
very good comparison between two failed presidents, how they are
similar and how they are different.Herbert Hoover neither knew nor does
Donald Trump know what to do nor how to marshal federal power. I thank
god for my hero Franklin Roosevelt every day, cried at his grave site
in Hyde Park and wish fervently then and now for a return of that
wonderful kind of humane inspiring leadership that ushered in a new way
of thinking about the federal government's power to help its people and
save a nation from hard times. It is about not treating government like
the enemy but treating it as the only thing of power that can save a
huge nation from a humanitarian and economic disaster. Call it socialism
or call it the road to communism it was neither of those dog whistles.
Call it chicken soup I do not care what one calls it it was a way of
saving a nation and thinking humanely about the people living in it who
are suffering and in trouble. It was a way of innovating thought about a
nation that is a collection of beings who need help. A nation is not a
rock. It is an assembly of humanity that sometimes needs prescient
leadership to come to its rescue. The Roosevelt New Deal restored our
nation to economic viability and brought back a nation from Great
Depression disaster. We are in those times now but are burdened with a
leader who does not think of us at all, who does not care about us and
who cares mostly about his polls and winning the next election damn the
fact that this nation is on the edge of a pandemic abyss where death is
our constant companion.
This president simply will
not act as science tells him to act for the entire nation in a way to
stem the greatest pandemic ever to hit the global scene in one hundred
years. If he does not act it will send this nation into economic free
fall. The Carona virus is a national problem. It needs a national
collective solution with strong executive leadership and not a states'
rights individualistic one depending on this governor or that for
individual answers one state bargaining against another for PPE
(personal protective equipment.)
No matter how
much he bloviates and looks like a powerful Mussolini fascistic populist
Trump is not a strong man but a weak one who does not know the first
thing about governing a nation through the strongest storm. Neither he
nor his son-in-law of zero experience, Jared Kusner, know what to do.
Trump is a man who could not save from bankruptcy even his own casinos
much less save a nation of 325 million people from a pandemic economic
collapse. It is our bad luck to have elected a puerile know nothing
narcissist driving the ship of state into ruin. Rescue it and save our
nation by voting blue up and down the ticket in November.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-herbert-hoover_n_5e879fb4c5b6cbaf2828e7c0
