{"id":11267,"date":"2018-07-06T21:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T04:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2018-07-06T21:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T04:50:05","slug":"historys-bad-ideas-are-an-inspiration-for-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/historys-bad-ideas-are-an-inspiration-for-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"History\u2019s Bad Ideas Are an Inspiration for Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">W<\/span>hat we now consider stupid and dangerous ideas of the past, progressives see as useful in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Even liberal historians usually label as disastrous two decisions by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration: the adoption of the Earl Warren-McClatchy newspaper inspired plan to intern Japanese-American citizens and the\u00a0Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937\u2014better known as FDR \u201ccourt-packing scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latter was a crazy scheme to remake the Supreme Court, given that Roosevelt wanted no more judicial interference in the implementation of the New Deal. And yet he had no recourse until slow-coach judicial retirements opened up new appointments of compliant progressive justices. In the interim, the convoluted proposal would have allowed Roosevelt to select a new\u2014and additional justice\u2014to the Supreme Court for every sitting judge who had reached 70 years, 6 months, and had not retired. And in theory, he could pack on 6 more judges, creating a 15-member court with a progressive majority.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/07\/06\/historys-bad-ideas-are-an-inspiration-for-progressives\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness What we now consider stupid and dangerous ideas of the past, progressives see as useful in the present. Even liberal historians usually label as disastrous two decisions by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration: the adoption of the Earl Warren-McClatchy newspaper inspired plan to intern Japanese-American citizens and the\u00a0Judicial Procedures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1167,99,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6636,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/barack-obama-and-the-bad-ideas-of-progressivism\/","url_meta":{"origin":11267,"position":0},"title":"Barack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce S. 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