A governing posture defined by deliberate federal retreat from enforcement and social responsibility, prioritizing order, regional autonomy, and market self-correction. This strategy stabilized post-Reconstruction America in the short term but accumulated unaddressed economic, social, and legitimacy load, culminating in systemic failure during the Great Depression.
Then inside the node later:
- Jim Crow consolidation
- labor repression
- regulatory hollowing
- Dust Bowl as environmental externality
- Hoover’s response as ideological consistency
- Hoovervilles as legitimacy rupture
All of that belongs together.