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Not really a strange coincidence at all. Unless you're suggesting anyone President using it gets shot ?/ 'Make America Great Again' was a widely used political slogan after the great depression.

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'Make America Great Again' was a widely used political slogan after the great depression.

If so history will again repeat itself because we will be in a great depression with 2 more years of O'Biden "leadership".

I did a quick search via Wikipedia on the use of "Make America Great Again" - no mention of post depression era phrase until 1940 -

Use before Donald Trump

Alexander Wiley

The phrase was first used by Republican senator Alexander Wiley in a speech at the third session of the 76th United States Congress in anticipation of the 1940 United States presidential election: "What is the way? Here is America. There are 130,000,000 of us. America needs a leader who can coordinate labor, capital, and management; who can give the man of enterprise encouragement, who can give them the spirit which will beget vision. That will make America great again."[12]

Barry Goldwater

see also: Barry Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign The slogan was found in some advertising associated with Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful 1964 presidential campaign.[13]

Ronald Reagan

See also: Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump at the White House in 1987 "Let's make America great again" was famously used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. At the time the United States was suffering from a worsening economy at home marked by stagflation and Reagan, using the country's economic distress as a springboard for his campaign, used the slogan to stir a sense of patriotism among the electorate.[14][15][16][17] Within his acceptance speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Reagan said, "For those without job opportunities, we'll stimulate new opportunities, particularly in the inner cities where they live. For those who've abandoned hope, we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again."[18][19]

Bill Clinton

See also: Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign The phrase was also used in speeches[20] by Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign.[21] Clinton also used the phrase in a radio commercial aired for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign.[22]

During the 2016 electoral campaign, Clinton suggested that Trump's version, used as a campaign rallying cry, was a message to white Southerners that Trump was promising to "give you an economy you had 50 years ago, and ... move you back up on the social totem pole and other people down."[23]

Christine O'Donnell

Christine O'Donnell's book about her unsuccessful 2010 bid as the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Delaware was published by St. Martin's Press on August 16, 2011, as Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again.[24]

Use by Donald Trump

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Yes, exactly . My comment meant 'A political slogan used after the great depression' bc a huge swath of America was still utterly impoverished and in poverty and by the standard use metrics of economic measurement, recovery/ confidence/ investment/ captal works etc really only began to pick up again around 1939/ 1940 hence the use of the term 'Make America Great Again' at that time (meaning looking back at what the Nation had just come through) was a call to look forward to an era of new growth and prosperity previously unattainable because of the collapse. Just for clarity, it was not just used in a single speech etc. There are images from that time of 'Make America Great Again' widely used on bollards and placards and painted on the side of buses/ trucks advertising this new 'call to action'. As one would see with any well funded political campaign ...