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Once a bullshit artist, always a bullshit artist (FDR, that is).

I suspect that, like Maurice Sendak, that crook, FDR, ripped-off George MacDonald (MANY, including C.S.Lewis, Lewis Carroll, G.K. Chesterton, etc., drew inspiration from MacDonald).

Well before FDR, George MacDonald observed:

"The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more."

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What exactly is the bullshit that you're identifying? FDR's cooptation of that truism in service of his bs politics?

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