During the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the nation has grappled with crippling inflation, social unrest, and a growing divide between the political parties over the role of government.
One filmmaker argued the Biden presidency is “eerily similar” to the environment in which President Calvin Coolidge entered.
“It was very similar to today, almost eerily similar,” Fox Nation filmmaker Amity Shlaes said on “Fox & Friends,” discussing the Fox Nation special “Coolidge: Rediscovering an American President.”
Shlaes outlined the three specific similarities between now and the 1920s.
“For example, we were coming out of a pandemic, influenza,” she said. “Two, we had recession… or the prospect of recession. Three, we had hidden inflation. The government wasn’t acknowledging to people that prices were up 40%. There was a sense of radicalism in the country and people were talking socialism and there it was. Income Harding first, then Coolidge for common sense America, what they…