That’s because the ones who actually study the Hoover adminstration know that he was a statist. According to an article on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal, leftist historians now “want to give him a little more credit for paving the way for [Franklin] Roosevelt’s expanded government intervention . . . ” Economists understand that FDR’s interventions made the Great Depression longer and more severe, but the history profession is oblivious to this, and doesn’t even seem to care to learn anything about it. Their ironclad criterion for ranking presidents is statism: the more the better. Thus, Hoover … Continue reading Leftists ‘Heart’ Herbert Hoover