The leftist infatuation with the New Deal

In one of his typically sharp-edged columns, Jonah Goldberg writes about the leftist infatuation with the New Deal.

Goldberg correctly points out the inconvenient truth that FDR’s “bold experimentation” (which trampled all over the rights of individuals) succeeded not in curing the Depression, but prolonging it.

But hardly anyone knows that. The worship of FDR and the New Deal occurs only because so many Americans have been taught a load of baloney about the Depression.

Why, Goldberg asks, can’t we have some bold experimentation in the direction of less government control over our lives?