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		jonny_eh 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New executive order puts all grants under politica... All that stuff was bad, especially Japanese internment, but this feels like a whole different category. It's a full-blown ceding control of the country to one man.

Ancapistani 4 months ago [–]

FDR had and exercised far more authority than Trump ever dreamed of.

It was so centralized, we effectively had Eleanor Roosevelt as acting President much of the time.

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