Here’s another sin to lay at the feet of us baby-boomers: we forgot to teach our kids and grandkids about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
That’s the only explanation I have for why right-wing MAGA Republicans embraced, however briefly, singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony’s pulsing country tune “Rich Men North of Richmond,” an anthem whose lyrics would have been cheered for at any F.D.R. campaign rally in 1932.
