01-19-2017, 03:47 PM
(01-19-2017, 03:36 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-19-2017, 02:02 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: We are about to get the most authoritarian President in the living memory of any American under the age of 90. (Coolidge might have been rather authoritarian, but one would have to be past 90 to remember him.
Donald Trump clearly fits the authoritarian model...and he is well to the Right of center. Britt's warnings of fascist character of a government apply strongly to him on just about everything. We all know the list.
"Keep cool with Coolidge" Coolidge? He was about as hands off and the opposite of authoritarian as possible.
FDR was pretty authoritarian, though, what with packing of the Supreme Court and all that.
Pretty much. The packing scheme did have the effect on the court that FDR desired and is probably why the Lost didn't waste any time term limiting Presidents after FDR died.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises