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Stephen Colbert, The Conservative Revisionism of FDR and the NEW DEAL

Writer Johathan Chait explains that when conservatives make the point that unemployment went up in 1938 (which is the basis of their claim that the New Deal failed) it was because conservatives talked FDR into slashing New Deal employment programs.

But the big conundrum in this GOP revisionism is they want to decry President Obama’s government stimulus as a failure AS they present the government stimulus of war production as what brought us out of the depression. Which adding silliness to conundrumdumb, all that war money dis not do a thing for American consumers or infrastructure.

As we seem to be learning more and more each day since the GOP went out of office and favor, Conservative Republicans have been wrong about everything.