{"id":36991,"date":"2017-01-22T03:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36991"},"modified":"2017-01-20T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-21T04:52:13","slug":"the-medias-great-depression-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/01\/22\/the-medias-great-depression-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"The media’s Great Depression nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Driscoll<\/a> on the recurring media nostalgia for a long-ago, much-worse-than-today time:<\/p>\n

The month after Obama won the election in 2008, Virginia Postrel noted that a lot of journalists (read: Democrat operatives with bylines) had heavily invested in the notion that it was the 1930s all over again, and had a major case of what Virginia dubbed \u201cDepression Lust,\u201d<\/a> and were busy cranking out \u201cDepression Porn\u201d in service to the Office of the President-Elect. Not least of which was Time magazine\u2019s infamous cover of Obama Photoshopped into the second coming of FDR<\/a> and the headline \u201cThe New, New Deal,\u201d thinking it was a compliment, and not an ominous prediction of an economy as similarly atrophied as Roosevelt\u2019s<\/a>. Pretending that Trump is Hitler allows you, oh brave foot-soldier in the DNC-MSM, to pose as the new Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It\u2019s simply the funhouse mirror image version of the same sclerotic meme.<\/p>\n

For the modern left, if the economy is relatively good*, and the incoming president has a (D) after his name, he\u2019s the second coming of JFK (see: Clinton, Bill); if the economy is bad, and he has a (D) after his name, he\u2019s FDR \u2014 and no matter what the shape of the economy, if the president has an (R) after his name, he\u2019s Hitler (QED: Nixon, Reagan, Bush #43, and Trump).<\/p>\n

* And it was, despite Clinton\u2019s rhetoric. Would Time magazine lie to you? Well yes, of course. But look what they admitted in December of 1992.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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