"In one of his final posts, during the 2012 presidential campaign, he sought to dispel what he called “the New Deal illusion.” Alluding to his earlier work, he wrote that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his fellow Democrats had simply extended or recast many policies of Roosevelt’s Republican predecessor, Herbert Hoover.
“The New Deal illusion survives because it is a very useful to today’s Democratic Party,” he said. “It needs myths, but if one knows the truth about it then we have the basis for understanding the essentially conservative nature of today’s Democratic Party.”"
“The New Deal illusion survives because it is a very useful to today’s Democratic Party,” he said. “It needs myths, but if one knows the truth about it then we have the basis for understanding the essentially conservative nature of today’s Democratic Party.”"
