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Trump’s New Deal

If you’re wondering why the past two weeks in American politics strike you as unprecedented, it’s because you weren’t around in 1933. No, I am not talking about Germany in 1933 (please can The New Yorker finally retire its absurd “Trump is Hitler!” analogy). I am talking about the United States in 1933 — to be precise on March 4 of that year, the day an equally radical administration began 100 days of national transformation.

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