The Great Suppression
Republicans have always had a talent for branding the catastrophes of their own making after the fact.
Coolidge and Hoover gave us the Great Depression. Worship at the altar of an under-regulated market until it collapsed under the weight of its own unchecked greed, dragging an entire generation into breadlines and dirt.
Bush gave us the Great Recession. A deregulated Wall Street mixed with rubber-stamped fraud dressed as financial innovation allowed banks to gamble with the mortgages of working families. When it all came apart, the real villains got bailouts. Everyone else got foreclosure notices.
And now Trump, with the help of a court he built, gives us what I am dubbing the Great Suppression.
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