…Jon Ston, you’re forgetting that Hitler, upon gaining power and forcing through the Enabling Act granting him ‘emergency powers’ as a dictator, never really did so with anything more than a slim popular mandate. His rise had just as much to do with backstage intrigue and underhanded deals as with political support. Consequently, whilst controlling [...]

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Regarded by historian Carl Degler as a “revolution” in which “The American people…abandoned, once and for all, the doctrine of laissez faire”[1], the extent to which the New Deal constituted a change, rather than an attempt to protect America’s pre-1929 values from the pressures of the Depression has long been a source of historical controversy.
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