Anyone viewing this all as some harbinger of a Democratic Might and New Deal Redux is carefully omitting the half century of literal bloodshed poured in by labor activists prior to 1932. The administrative state wasn’t a gift and liberal democracy doesn’t just remake itself without struggle.
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We have to be willing to fight & possibly die (which we’re all gonna do anyway) to demand fair living wages, stellar benefits & respect.
https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2023/10/16/autocracy-is-not-inevitable/ (originally ran in the Atlantic)