NBC News presidential historian hopes America today would follow FDR’s example and not become militantly authoritarian

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 …

You're a fucking historian? Seriously? https://t.co/v8JscnU1mX

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) December 7, 2021

Other than interring American citizens of Japanese (and also German and Italian, much lesser numbers) ancestry, rationing any number of things, seizing entire industries to build war materials…

Maybe you gotta do nasty shit to win a war like that. But don't lie about it.

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) December 7, 2021

Oh and let's not forget FDR trying to pack the Supreme Court and becoming the only President to break George Washington's tradition of two terms (before it was outlawed).

— Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) December 7, 2021

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

— Margarine-/k/rampus (@TheUnaButters) December 7, 2021

Is the first time you've heard of FDR or

— Stone Cold Moog (Festive Version) (@MMoog38) December 7, 2021

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 "McCarthy was Right about Ds and Liberals" (@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

I mean we kinda did for 4 years, there were tons of restrictions on speech, assembly, things you could buy and do, and if you were a Japanese American you could get sent to an internment camp. https://t.co/lP6sMzLkPg

— Max Rohtbart #GetVaccinated (@Max_Rohtbart) December 7, 2021

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 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 "McCarthy was Right about Ds and Liberals" (@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

— Plàyà Manhattan (@PlayaShadowban) December 7, 2021

What do you do for a living? Do you write children’s books??

— johnnymagoo (@johnnymagoo2) December 7, 2021

LOL "historian"…..good lord

— Mostly peaceful myocarditus (@C0nservatlve) December 7, 2021

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

— FSUcks (@Davelite93) December 7, 2021

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‘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