Este libro me espera desde hace un tiempo en la mesa de luz. No veo las horas de atacarlo. Dice Jonah Goldberg en su book review:
Suena familiar esta historia, no?
"The book focuses also on the transformation of another forgotten man, Wendell Willkie, the utility executive who became FDR's Republican challenger in 1940. Originally a New Deal sympathizer, Willkie grew disillusioned with its politics. By the presidential race, he called upon Roosevelt to "give up this vested interest that you have in depression" as the rationale for a "philosophy of distributed scarcity." Willkie was defeated in large part because Roosevelt's political revolution had succeeded, even if his economic one had failed. But Willkie had it right. FDR's political interests were deeply tied to continuing economic misery. His class-warfare rhetoric became self-fulfilling. The more the government failed, the more the people resented Big Business, and wanted Roosevelt to punish the "economic royalists." The longer the economy remained depressed, the more justifiable seemed the New Deal's permanent welfare state and its abandonment of federalism and other constitutional restraints on the federal establishment.
Lo triste y la verdad es que las dos guerras mundiales demostraron la necesidad de estados federales fuertes.
ReplyDeleteSon horribles para la libertad y la prosperidad, pero son buenos para derrotar enemigos externos.
Estuve a punto de comprar Liberal Fascism, pero me querían cobrar el full price. Voy a esperar que baje o pedirlo en Amazon.
ReplyDeleteSí. Y el problema es que cuando el estado crece, como creció el norteamericano con las dos guerras, es muy dificil hacerlo retroceder después.
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