Is Trump the New FDR?

Episode Transcript

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The short answer is yes, FDRa president. Believe me, I am
no fan of I think his newDeal was disastrous. He was an appeaser
of Adolf Hitler. People forget thatFDR in fact welcomed the Munich Agreement.
It wasn't just Neville Chamberlain. Andof course he sold out Eastern Europe to

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Stalin and the Soviet Union, theCommunism at Yalta. But the one thing
FDR did do that was absolutely brilliantand transformative was he created a new,
powerful majority political coalition on the ashesof the old Republican majority. When Herbert

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Hoover went down in nineteen thirty two, defeated by FDR, he sent FDR
sent the Republicans into the political wildernessfor twenty years. And even then it
took Dwight Eisenhower, the most prominent, in fl fluential popular general of World
War II on the American side,to bring the Republicans back to national power.

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In other words, FDR built apolitical coalition that lasted for two generations.
This is what is happening right nowwith Donald Trump. What you're witnessing
here at the convention, and whatyou've been seeing now for the last eight
to nine years is the transformation ofthe Republican Party. It is now a

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working middle class party of the people, by the people, for the people.
Women are now voting Republican. Latinosare now Republican. Working class voters
now the old working class that wassolidly Democrat, they're now voting Trump and
they're voting Maga. Also, AfricanAmerican males are now moving more and more

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into the Republican tent. And sowhat you're seeing is a new electoral realignment
in which the Democrats are becoming theparty of the coastal elites, of people
on welfare and of illegals, whileyou have now the Maga Republican Party under
Trump, the party of Middle America, of the middle and working class,

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and of all races, all ethnicities, genders, men, women, young,
old. If this America First coalitionstays together, I believe it's going
to dominate American politics for at leastthe next ten, if not twenty years.
And mark my words, if thetrajectory of this race continues as it

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has been now for the last coupleof months, Joe Biden will go down
as the Herbert Hoover of the twentyfirst century. He will go down as
the man who led his political partynot just out of power, but into
political oblivion. And the Democrats haveno one else to blame but themselves.

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Trump is not just a warrior.Trump is not just a great politician and
patriot. He is also now agreat coalition builder. And we are going
to be talking now about this agethe way we talk about, say the
Jackson age, or the Lincoln age, or the FDR era. This is
now the era of Donald Trump.It is being born right in front of

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our eyes.