An Impertinent Question

Professor, you are on to something that FDR pointed out to his friend, Rexford G, Tugwell, at a lunch in August 1932. Tugwell remembered:



"There was latent, he thought, not far below the uneasy surface of our disrupted society, an impulse among a good many "strong" men, men used to having their way, mostly industrialists who directed affairs without being questioned, a feeling that democracy had run its course and that totalitarians had grasped the necessities of the time. People wanted strong leadership, they were sick of uncertainty, anxious for security, and willing to trade liberty for it,"



From Richard Connaughton's "MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines." Hardbound p. 38



FDR identified today's problem 81 years ago.
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