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Every president has a legacy for better or worse. It may be that President Joe Biden’s is being erected right now with tent poles across the country. Little encampments built for illegal immigrants pouring across the southern border are popping up like weeds through the sidewalk. We should name them what they really are, Bidenvilles.
Tent cities are opening across New York, a new feature in our urban landscape, but not one without historical precedent.
In the 1930s as the Great Depression sank Americans’ bank accounts and spirits, shanty towns were assembled far and wide to accommodate the victims of the economic disaster. And the people of that time had the good sense to put the blame right where it belonged, on their government, specifically their former president Herbert Hoover.
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Hoovervilles became a symbol not just of government failure, but of popular resistance to an incompetent, elite class that crashed the markets and all-but destroyed the country. Sound familiar?
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 18: A bed is seen in the dormitory during a tour of the Randall’s Island Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center on October 18, 2022 in New York City.
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There are rich historical arguments as to Hoover’s handling of the depression, but to the voters of the time he appeared to either be blind to their suffering, or to just not care. They saw him doing next to nothing. How else can we describe Biden’s attitude to the crisis on the southern border?
The president can’t even be bothered to visit the southern border, nor can his appointed border tsar and Vice President Kamala Harris. They’ve ignored it for almost two years but when a mere busload of migrants arrived in Martha’s Vineyard it was suddenly a national emergency. Of course, the heroic…