I wrote that the "the Court tried to sabotage the New Deal under Roosevelt." McArdle, at her new digs at the Daily Beast, dissents:
[T]he administration did a basically good job with the banking system, and I’m pretty fond of the Hoover Dam. But the popular narrative of FDR striding into office and fixing the Great Depression by the proper application of modern economic principals [sic] is nonsense. He didn’t have economic principals [sic], so much as a great willingness to try anything that was suggested to him. Unfortunately, a fair number of those things were stupid, and the NRA was the stupidest. And he had a hard time recognizing which one of his many ideas was working—even as it drowned in its own contradictions, FDR was puzzled and angry at the NRA’s failure.
The NRA was also a massive federal power grab that deserved to get struck down because no government should have powers that sweeping.
The Dish 