This was the Gilded Age our current leadership wants us to go back to: Robber barons, bank runs, crushing poverty and unemployment, and a federal government so weak that Treasury had to be bailed out by JP Morgan.
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It was the era of company towns, brutal work conditions, private security firms and police and yes the US Army violently breaking strikes. Alongside the expansion of rights and the New Deal, the Progressive Era that would follow this horror is yet another thing these revanchist tyrants would undo.
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