That kind of absolute denial of the actual facts always boggles my mind:

First Hoover, then FDR, pushed stimulus from 1929-1944, and what we got was the second-longest depression, and the worst, deepest depression, in US history.

> After Roosevelt began his stimulus programs, the economy strengthened and unemployment fell steadily.
> When he cut the programs in 1937 it caused the “Roosevelt Recession,”
> and the economy tanked and unemployment spiked.

That there was a slight decline in the unemployment rate, at some point, is as irrelevant as it is when Keynesians claim the same thing, today. Whenever the government has NOT tried to “stimulate”, the economy has truly recovered within 18 months, to actually boom again. When the “stimulus” gimmick is tried, then you get the Witch-Doctor Effect, where the “treatment” makes things worse than they would have been, but the shaman proclaims “imagine how much worse things would have been without me!”

> When he refunded the programs in 1938,
> unemployment went back down and the economy rebounded into WWII.

You just demonstrated another huge fallacy, in your claim that the US “rebounded” into WWII:

WWII was devastating to the economy. It took being as sociopathic as a government bureaucrat to proclaim it a “recovery”, based on the fact that millions of unemployed were enslaved into forced military service, ergo hidden from the ivory-tower statistics.

When people across the entire economy are being forced to ration, in order to simply survive, that’s not a rebound, it’s a collapse.

And the same was true all through the New Deal. Saddling the actual, wealth-creating economy with massive tax burdens in order to fund makework jobs that are stealth welfare only cripples the economy further, even while it’s hiding unemployment. The same disaster happened in 1990s Sweden and Japan, with the same miserable results.

The New Deal and WWII brought austerity, not prosperity.

That’s what Keynesianism does.

Once the forced labor of WWII ended, the economy immediately began to show its failure in terms that even the bureaucrats couldn’t deny. It was so crippling that it prompted the first Republican Revolution, a takeover of Congress that resulted in the dismantling of much of the New Deal.

The product of that end of Keynesian stimulus was the first real prosperity and economic growth in nearly two decades, resulting in the boom of the 1950s.