The First New Deal had a lot of fascist economic ideas, especially the National Recovery Administration.
We forget that the biggest break that FDR had with Fascism and with conservative Republican dogma was with his total embrace of free trade and his western hemisphere Good Neighbor Policy. Dozens of reciprocal trade agreements happened…
The First New Deal had a lot of fascist economic ideas, especially the National Recovery Administration.
We forget that the biggest break that FDR had with Fascism and with conservative Republican dogma was with his total embrace of free trade and his western hemisphere Good Neighbor Policy. Dozens of reciprocal trade agreements happened on his watch and eventually the Republicans would admit that he was right (until Trump). And he stopped sending the Marines into every Latin American country where the government did something we didn't like. He let Mexico nationalize its oil industry, a decision that would have a huge positive impact on the US's ability to fight WW2, as it created a very friendly country to our south that sent us humongous amounts of raw materials, a huge surplus labor force to replace the agricultural workers who had been drafted into our military, and even an air squadron to fight in the Philippines -- the only time Mexico has ever sent its military to fight outside Mexico. Trump of course is aware of none of this.
The First New Deal had a lot of fascist economic ideas, especially the National Recovery Administration.
We forget that the biggest break that FDR had with Fascism and with conservative Republican dogma was with his total embrace of free trade and his western hemisphere Good Neighbor Policy. Dozens of reciprocal trade agreements happened on his watch and eventually the Republicans would admit that he was right (until Trump). And he stopped sending the Marines into every Latin American country where the government did something we didn't like. He let Mexico nationalize its oil industry, a decision that would have a huge positive impact on the US's ability to fight WW2, as it created a very friendly country to our south that sent us humongous amounts of raw materials, a huge surplus labor force to replace the agricultural workers who had been drafted into our military, and even an air squadron to fight in the Philippines -- the only time Mexico has ever sent its military to fight outside Mexico. Trump of course is aware of none of this.