The Cycles that Begot Herbert Hoover and Donald Trump
Almost a year ago (October, 2017, we passed the 88th anniversary of the Crash of 1929. As we march towards the Crash of 2020, it’s interesting to look back at the similarities in politics and society. It’s downright eery!
Cue Herbert Hoover: A man in the wrong place at the wrong time, who got blamed for the Great Depression, although he had nothing to do with it.
Herbert Hoover was a populist president, as is Donald Trump. It’s amazing to me the similarities between these two men as well as for the periods in which they became president.
There are contrasts, as well—the biggest seems to be that Trump easily communicates with the general public, but Hoover on the other hand, was able to sway intellectuals with his arguments but was quite “distant” from the “average Joe.”
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