John Caleb Calhoun

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@RulerofNV Yes but his ideals served as the basis for the progressive era that Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson championed. He's the father of american conservatism in terms of vibes (pro business, etc.) but how that manifests itself in policy has changed drastically over time.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@PineTreeGOP I wouldn't really say fdr ran on class politics in 1932. He did talk about "the forgotten man" but he actually ran as a fiscal conservative and blamed Hoover's spending for prolonging the depression. It was only after the 2nd new deal that he became an anti Wall Street crusader.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@neo_kme What's crazy is the first bill fdr signed as president actually cut bonus army benefits 25 percent.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

Kobe fans realizing LeBron and Steph Curry could tie him in rings the same year if they team up on the Warriors.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

Wow. So sorry to hear about the @ChrisJohnson28 ALS diagnosis. This one hit hard.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@fawfulfan @StuartStrong @216thinker This was one of the key reasons corruption was so rampant in the gilded age at the local political level. State legislators got away with blatant bribery and extortion crimes all over the country because of who they selected to the US Senate.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@RedEaglePatriot This specific map was 3 years before the world war, 6 years before the camps and was his re-election campaign. Simply put, it was nothing more or less than a referendum on his new deal spending programs, the most leftist part of his agenda. And it was his most successful win.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@RockChartrand The fact that nobody on here says William Jennings Bryan is frustrating. Real ones know Teddy Roosevelt was just copying his entire agenda as president.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@PocketHoosier @GeorgeSelgin @nnausa_ No. Domestically, the darkest periods of the depression were before FDR took office. Unemployment peaked in the winter of 1933 before his inauguration.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@Arno57119Arnold @AK0328024868565 @RangerSyl Sry I left out a word. Meant to say post industrial revolution.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@EchoesofWarYT More revisionist history. FDR was planning his retirement home in Hyde Park in 1940. It was only when France fell to Nazi Germany that spring that he started to reconsider and he said he would only run if the Democratic party actively drafted him at its convention, which it did.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@RealJohnDennis Harding inherited unemployment at 12 percent. FDR inherited unemployment at 25 percent that coincided with the dust bowls and a collapse in global trade due to rising European nationalism. It's simply false to say the recession of 1920 was worse.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@TruthSe3kerEt @AGZC6 Teddy Roosevelt ran on nationalized health insurance in 1912. Reagan, Bush Jr. and Trump all went to court to push for development on land TR set aside. TR actively intervened on behalf of union workers in the 1902 coal strike. All of these are at odds with modern conservatism.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@Arno57119Arnold @AK0328024868565 @RangerSyl I think it's safe to say a post industrial anti colonial europe wasn't going to have the same war over resources problem that pre-15th century Europe did.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@TruthSe3kerEt @AGZC6 That's just not true. Benjamin Harrison and teddy roosevelt were significantly more progressive on economic policy than Grover Cleveland. So was Taft actually.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@PocketHoosier @GeorgeSelgin @nnausa_ I mean the absolute darkest period of the depression happened the winter before he took office so no he wasn't the one who made it "great." Now i'll agree certain forms of intervention made it worse: smoot Hawley tariff and fed raising interest rates, but neither was under him.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@AK0328024868565 @RangerSyl FDR believed (rightly i might add) that the geopolitical instability that plunged Europe into two world wars was rooted in the 19th century colonialist tendencies of the continent and the british empire was at the heart of that.

[John Caleb Calhoun @CalebCalhoun]

@MoxeeMeg @RangerSyl He didn't sell us out at Yalta. He sold out Churchill and the British Empire. And he was right to do so because that empire was nothing but a geopolitical headache for the United States.