Thanks for this, such an important revision to American conservative politics. After all, Roosevelt was a patrician, Christian, and patriot, hardly a communist. Even after the attempted coup by Morgan, et al, via Butler, he remained a bridge between capital however corrupt, and labor. And like Lincoln he came to see, perhaps from his time dealing with polio, that Labor preceeded capital.
What you miss in this essay is however severe, because the best of the New Deal was not a contest between regulatory bureaucracy and stop gap spending measures to alleviate poverty and unemployment. The crown jewel of the New Deal, often missed, and essential to a revival of the true American conservative revolutionary tradition of Washington, Lincoln, et al, is the TVA. An economic miracle in every way, and combined with all 4 corners, plus extensions like the REA to apply the new electricity to rural farms and industry, and the RFC for critical lending and credit for SME's, was a fundamental revival of the American System with the new, more powerful tools of science and industry, for which Lincoln and Washington would have smiled. Lillienthal's work does justice for the TVA, and in the addendum he notes the TVA was seen in the post-war years as the 8th miracle of the world, and something to be replicated as the means to end colonialism, poverty, and the scourge of liberalism's noble savage doctrines all over the world.
I'd be happy to write something for your substack if that's helpful, but the cornerstone is key for a successful rebuilding of the American Constitutional Temple. Again, thanks.
When I first published my book Hamilton Versus Wall Street, one of the biggest controversial elements was that I put FDR in the American System tradition. Your article goes in the same direction, but my book provides more indepth background to the picture. And there's much more on my blog, americansystemnow. Thank you, but it's time to do more. https://americansystemnow.com/fdrs-100-days-put-the-constitution-into-action/ Nancy Spannaus, author, Hamilton Versus Wall Street
Thanks for this, such an important revision to American conservative politics. After all, Roosevelt was a patrician, Christian, and patriot, hardly a communist. Even after the attempted coup by Morgan, et al, via Butler, he remained a bridge between capital however corrupt, and labor. And like Lincoln he came to see, perhaps from his time dealing with polio, that Labor preceeded capital.
What you miss in this essay is however severe, because the best of the New Deal was not a contest between regulatory bureaucracy and stop gap spending measures to alleviate poverty and unemployment. The crown jewel of the New Deal, often missed, and essential to a revival of the true American conservative revolutionary tradition of Washington, Lincoln, et al, is the TVA. An economic miracle in every way, and combined with all 4 corners, plus extensions like the REA to apply the new electricity to rural farms and industry, and the RFC for critical lending and credit for SME's, was a fundamental revival of the American System with the new, more powerful tools of science and industry, for which Lincoln and Washington would have smiled. Lillienthal's work does justice for the TVA, and in the addendum he notes the TVA was seen in the post-war years as the 8th miracle of the world, and something to be replicated as the means to end colonialism, poverty, and the scourge of liberalism's noble savage doctrines all over the world.
I'd be happy to write something for your substack if that's helpful, but the cornerstone is key for a successful rebuilding of the American Constitutional Temple. Again, thanks.
When I first published my book Hamilton Versus Wall Street, one of the biggest controversial elements was that I put FDR in the American System tradition. Your article goes in the same direction, but my book provides more indepth background to the picture. And there's much more on my blog, americansystemnow. Thank you, but it's time to do more. https://americansystemnow.com/fdrs-100-days-put-the-constitution-into-action/ Nancy Spannaus, author, Hamilton Versus Wall Street