Oh, OK, I see your point, the louses.
The populists and progressives of the day were snake oil salesmen writ large. Convinced the people that we needed a big central government to look after us little people. Then when all went south and their policies sent the world’s economy into a great depression, up from the ashes arose a great sPhincter, er Phoenix of all humanity, the socialist messiah, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The rest is history. And history repeats itself before our very eyes.