Paging Herbert Hoover

Trump's giving him a run for his money as worst ever

Republicans are taking one hell of a gamble banking on the economy turning around enough in the next five months to boost their electoral chances--especially considering that they're going to need 100% of Americans actively involved in the economy (hard to see for at least a few more months as many elderly people and people with children will probably continue to take a hard pass) and the unemployment numbers dropping to an encouraging level (30 million people aren't all going back to work before November).

But the more I see their strategy the more it reminds me of Herbert Hoover's strategy in 1932, where he kept telling the millions of unemployed Americans who were going hungry to trust the markets and all would be well soon.

Spoiler alert:  The final tally in the 1932 election was 472 electoral votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 58 for Hoover.  Democrats would hold the White House for the next twenty years, and control of Congress for almost a generation.

Here's hoping the old adage that what we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history bites republicans on Donald Trump's fat ass in a big way this November.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee