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Trump is not the second coming of Grover Cleveland
Posted on: March 13, 2024 at 09:07:07 CT
El-ahrairah BAMA
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That’s right. These badly deluded people apparently believe that another Trump run at the White House in 2024 will enable the Donald to replicate President Grover Cleveland’s lone case of winning in 1884, losing in 1888 and winning again in 1892.
But here’s the thing. Grover Cleveland stood for something worth winning the White House to advance. That is, staunch adherence to the gold standard, free trade, budget surpluses, non-intervention abroad and a small Federal government in Washington.
Indeed, without welfare domestically and foreign wars abroad, Cleveland was able to leave the $1.62 billion public debt he inherited 25% lower at $1.22 billion when he left office. Classic 19th century liberalism was then in its heyday and Grover Cleveland was the closest thing to its living, breathing embodiment to ever occupy the Oval Office. And that was notwithstanding the fact he was a Democrat to boot, albeit of the old-fashioned Jefferson/Jackson kind.
Needless to say, the Democrats gave up half of Cleveland’s classic liberal legacy under Woodrow Wilson and his foolish war to make the world safe for democracy aboard and government hospitable to interventionist progressivism at home. And the rest of it disappeared entirely when the greatest egomaniac to occupy the Oval Office prior to the Donald—Franklin Roosevelt–installed the permanent Welfare State and Warfare State on the banks of the Potomac during 1933-1945.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/david-stockman/wake-up-conservatives-donald-trump-is-not-the-second-coming-of-grover-cleveland/
But here’s the thing. Grover Cleveland stood for something worth winning the White House to advance. That is, staunch adherence to the gold standard, free trade, budget surpluses, non-intervention abroad and a small Federal government in Washington.
Indeed, without welfare domestically and foreign wars abroad, Cleveland was able to leave the $1.62 billion public debt he inherited 25% lower at $1.22 billion when he left office. Classic 19th century liberalism was then in its heyday and Grover Cleveland was the closest thing to its living, breathing embodiment to ever occupy the Oval Office. And that was notwithstanding the fact he was a Democrat to boot, albeit of the old-fashioned Jefferson/Jackson kind.
Needless to say, the Democrats gave up half of Cleveland’s classic liberal legacy under Woodrow Wilson and his foolish war to make the world safe for democracy aboard and government hospitable to interventionist progressivism at home. And the rest of it disappeared entirely when the greatest egomaniac to occupy the Oval Office prior to the Donald—Franklin Roosevelt–installed the permanent Welfare State and Warfare State on the banks of the Potomac during 1933-1945.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/david-stockman/wake-up-conservatives-donald-trump-is-not-the-second-coming-of-grover-cleveland/
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Trump is not the second coming of Grover Cleveland - El-ahrairah BAMA - 3/13 09:07:07
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