History repeats itself…. We’ve all heard that and we better hope that it’s not totally true. While Trump’s presidency seems absolutely disastrous, the wider implications of facing another world where a majority GOP runs the House, the Senate and the State is damn scary.
In 1928, this happened, in 1929, the Great repression started!
In most of our living memory, 1997, the same thing happened and guess what, The Great Repression came.
BE AFRAID, VERY AFRAID!
Politico wrote an extremely interesting article about 1928 titled “What Happened the Last Time Republicans Had a Majority This Huge?” An excerpt is below….
America was rich—or so it seemed. Charles Lindbergh was on the cover of Time. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
Jean Lussier went over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball (thus trumping the previous year’s vogue for flagpole sitting). Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in a talkie (“Steamboat Willie”). Irving Aaronson and His Commanders raised eyebrows with the popular—and, for its time, scandalous—song, “Let’s Misbehave,” and presidential nominee Herbert Hoover gave his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, a shellacking worthy of the history books.
The key takeaway: It’s been a really, really long time since Republicans have owned Capitol Hill as they do now.
But victory can be a fleeting thing. In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world. Two years later, they narrowly lost their majority. Two years after that, in 1932, their caucus shrunk to 117 members and the number of Republican-held seats in the Senate fell to just 36. To borrow the title of a popular 1929 novel (which had nothing whatsoever to do with American politics): Goodbye to all that.
A surface explanation for the quick rise and fall of the GOP House majority of 1928 is the Great Depression. As the party in power, Republicans owned the economy, and voters punished them for it. In this sense, today’s Republicans have no historical parallel to fear. Voters—at least a working majority of the minority who turned out last week—clearly blame Barack Obama for the lingering aftershocks of the recent economic crash.
But what if the Republicans of 1928 owed their demise to a more fundamental force? What if it was demography, not economics, that truly killed the elephant?
Read the full article here.
Is this dear legit? Or do we face a serious issue in the coming years?
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