opinion
NOTHING BUT FEAR
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was made famous as a rallying cry by FDR. Trump just repeated the line, and couldn’t have meant it more differently—or darkly.
Henry Scott Wallace is an attorney and was the 2018 Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania's first district. He is co-chair of the Wallace Global Fund, a foundation founded by his grandfather, Henry A. Wallace, who served President Franklin Roosevelt as Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, and Secretary of Commerce.
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” was made famous as a rallying cry by FDR. Trump just repeated the line, and couldn’t have meant it more differently—or darkly.