Trump’s New Deal: 100 days to reverse the legacy of FDR

In the first of my monthly essays for the London Times, I compare the latest executive orders with a similar blizzard from the president who shaped modern America

If you’re wondering why the past two weeks in American politics strike you as unprecedented, it’s because you weren’t around in 1933. No, I am not talking about Germany in 1933 (please can The New Yorker finally retire its absurd “Trump is Hitler!” analogy). I am talking about the United States in 1933 — to be precise on March 4 of that year, the day an…