"The New Deal…built a tremendous amount of infrastructure… It also built a hell of a lot of places for people to have fun… Investments in those things weren’t a sideshow… New Deal liberalism…was self-consciously interested in making the case for itself to the public by making tangible improvements in the lives of working people." @katearonoff newrepublic.com/article/174860 ht @kylascan

// essential