Fuzzy Bear
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« on: September 11, 2019, 04:28:54 AM » |
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The 22nd Amendment should be repealed. It has the unwanted side-effect of making a 2nd term President something of a 4 year lame duck. It was repealed by conservatives, oddly enough, at a time when they were able to elect a President more popular than FDR (Eisenhower).
The two-term tradition was a very powerful tradition in American politics for decades. It's why TR didn't get nominated in 1912. It's why only the extraordinary circumstances of the Depression and WWII allowed FDR a 3rd and 4th term. There was no good reason for the 22nd Amendment, although I do wonder if, with mass media what it is today, the two-term tradition would regain the force it once had.
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