Sep 01 2009
Echoes of Today’s Political Rhetoric
The Nation magazine supplies a dead-on example of the way many conservatives are now criticizing the Obama administration. Only the criticisms come from early in the twentieth century. Father Charles Coughlin, a progenitor of today’s radio celebrities such as Rush Limbaugh, says of Franklin Roosevelt “So help me God, I will be instrumental in taking a Communist from the chair once occupied by Washington”, while people like Limbaugh today accuse Obama of being a communist.
The article (you will need a subscription to read it in its entirety),whether you embrace or reject the magazine’s leftist slant, does a great job of unearthing an anti-government thread running through the past century.