The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-18-2020, 06:37 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Yep. The romantic view of famous outlaws went on to include gangsters like Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde and so forth until FDR and J. Edger Hoover showed up and began leaning heavy on Democratic governors/mayors to stop enabling them by offering them sanctuary and began taking them out/down one by one.

I view it as FDR expanding the federal government to handle problems that previous administrations had not addressed.  In this case, it included smoothing out the boom and bust economy so common in the gilded age which cumulated in the Great Depression, plus supporting the original law and order function of the FBI.

I can see how later presidents by some definitions took this progressive thing too far.  In buying the black vote and splitting off the racist vote, the progressive era ended.  America was made not great rather than the conservatives seeing the drive for equality continue.  

Unravellings happen.