In a major step forward, the next wave of conservative "thinkers" (tee-hee) have discovered something good that happened after the 19th Century! According to David Brooks, they
write admiringly about the New Deal. They mention Roosevelt’s economic policies, but they also emphasize the New Deal’s intense social conservatism. Self-conscious maternalists like Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkins ensured that New Deal programs were biased in favor of traditional two-parent families.
Did you catch that: "...the New Deal's intense social conservatism." That sure isn't the way conservatives were talking about it then.
So it only took 70 years for conservative "thinkers" to discover the obvious about the New Deal. Gee, who knows? Maybe some day they'll discover that civil rights and gay liberation were their ideas, too.
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