Schumer - again - has got it backwards
On March 16, Senator Schumer of New York said on television: “We’re in the most serious economic problem we’ve been in a very long time — much worse than 2001. The president’s hands-off attitude is reminiscent of Herbert Hoover in 1929 and 1930.”
Within 24 hours, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, a Democrat of Illinois, was weighing in with his own 1930s comparison. Roosevelt had pulled a country out of Depression and united it; President Bush was doing the opposite, he said.
You get the picture: Mr. Bush is like Hoover, the do-nothing. Democrats are like Roosevelt, the activist.
It’s worthwhile to go back to that Depression period to see what people actually did or didn’t do and who resembles whom. The reality differs from the cartoon.