It’s Pearl Harbor Day and NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who’s tested positive for TDS in previous Twitchy posts, is thinking about how FDR and most Americans reacted and hoping that America would do the same in 2021. In short, he praises Roosevelt for not making America “a militantly authoritarian country” to win the war.
After Pearl Harbor, some Americans said we must become a militantly authoritarian country to win the war. FDR and most Americans instead replied: watch how strong our democracy can be in world crisis! I pray that the same would happen if there were such a predicament in 2021.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 7, 2021
And yes, you have to follow the thread to get to the part where he acknowledges the Japanese internment camps.
In the wake of the attack against the United States of eighty years ago today, FDR committed the monumental error of signing Executive Order 9066, which led to internment of women and men “of Japanese ancestry”: pic.twitter.com/G5KZhPWksU
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 7, 2021
But other than that …
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1468362380774154244
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1468362961127358467
https://twitter.com/NathanWurtzel/status/1468363300064972800
In another age, he would have been a well regarded court historian
— Rob (@UserNameR0B) December 7, 2021
If I recall correctly, a substantial & influential block of political leaders publicly agitated to make FDR a dictator
— Dr. Cool Breeze Wilson (@CoolBreezeWils1) December 7, 2021
FDR then replied by being the most authoritarian president we had https://t.co/FjoRzMv8aC
— 🦂Butters-/k/un🦂 (@TheUnaButters) December 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/MMoog38/status/1468365804873859079
A historian. Wow. Are you aware of: FDR’s internment of the Nisei? Korematsu? Justice Jackson’s famous dissent in Korematsu? https://t.co/xIGwNr29fb
— Peter Kinder (@PeterKinder) December 7, 2021
Don’t forget the wage controls that put more black people on the unemployment line and dependent on the govt.
— tomwils1967 (@tomwils1967) December 7, 2021
Seriously?! Internment camps, compulsory farm, rent, price and wage controls and rationing that lasted into 46 in most cases….
— Scott C ""Panem Et Circenses" (@ScottC20012) December 7, 2021
You mean besides sending Japanese to internment camps, denying Jewish refugees entrance, seizing entire industries….
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) December 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/Max_Rohtbart/status/1468226115688878089
You contradict yourself immediately, also this doesn't take account for the seized gold of private individuals & how SCOTUS argued that unsold wheat was commerce https://t.co/ylQskZ5FvC
— Rodin (@RodinsRevenge) December 7, 2021
A "Presidential Historian" trying to argue that FDR wasn't militantly authoritarian after Pearl Harbor. You've got to be kidding me. https://t.co/9T41WB0qAh
— Aaron Middlesworth (@OSUBigA) December 7, 2021
This is what rewriting history looks like https://t.co/WDezDkf7vL
— Scott C ""Panem Et Circenses" (@ScottC20012) December 7, 2021
You should sue whatever college you went to and demand a refund. There's no reason a Historian should be this wildly inaccurate. https://t.co/GNWFRI1Na4
— Zach Jones (@TheZMaster23) December 7, 2021
You have literally no excuse for this level of historical illiteracy.
— Neal 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 (@NealPierson) December 7, 2021
Yeah… this is not an actual thing
— End the Simpsons (@EndTheSimpsons) December 7, 2021
What do you do for a living? Do you write children’s books??
— johnnymagoo (@johnnymagoo2) December 7, 2021
https://twitter.com/C0nservatlve/status/1468363958226599936
I, just, well… got nothing for you. Twitter has exposed more "experts" than anything I've seen, and they do it to themselves. https://t.co/sADUWJ7ojs
— dave. (@Davelite93) December 7, 2021
Related:
‘Are you going to make it?’ NBC News presidential historian has another ‘dishonest’ Trump-triggered WH Rose Garden episode https://t.co/suqBnxF0nD
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 7, 2021
