In my post at https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-catholic-depression.391754/ I noted Allan Lichtman's suggestion that in the unlikely event Al Smith won the presidential race in 1928, people might blame the Catholic Church for the Great Depression.
Here's another idea (mine this time): Maybe the backlash against the famously wet President Smith insures that Prohibition gets at least a few more years of life? ("Smith puts booze ahead of bread!")
(I can actually see at least one distinguished economist--Irving Fisher--arguing that Smith's failure to enforce Prohibition made the Depression significantly worse... https://books.google.com/books?id=JXa9MgztR2AC&pg=PA15)
Here's another idea (mine this time): Maybe the backlash against the famously wet President Smith insures that Prohibition gets at least a few more years of life? ("Smith puts booze ahead of bread!")
(I can actually see at least one distinguished economist--Irving Fisher--arguing that Smith's failure to enforce Prohibition made the Depression significantly worse... https://books.google.com/books?id=JXa9MgztR2AC&pg=PA15)
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