From an FDR 1936 campaign speech in Madison Square Garden:
“For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today.
They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.”
From a speech at the 1936 Democratic convention that renominated FDR for president, Roosevelt calls out the forces of corruption and greed that the Republican Party gave a home to. The Republican Party has only changed for the worse in a century as they have become a cult of personality under Donald Trump.
Trump is a convicted felon. As president he has continued to flaunt laws and ignore the constitution while his enablers turn a blind eye to his crimes. It is well past time that Americans and Iowans stand up to the Trump criminal element and say “Enough!”
We have had enough of the 50 years of Republican government of, by and for the wealthy. Let us vote them out and restore government for “we the people!”