Answer: 1929.

Victor Davis Hanson, wonderfully written and enlightening as usual.

We are now in relationship to 2008, as 1938 was once to 1929 -- lots of programs, still no jobs. The debt not just bothers, but embarrasses, us all. The reset button "he did it" foreign policy is unseemly, like the perpetual error-prone shortstop who complains about the pebbles on the playing field left from yesterday's game. Independents, without any help from Beck, Drudge, and Hannity, are tired of the play of the race card for wanting the federal immigration law to apply to everyone regardless of race. The voters are tired of a nonstop 2008 campaign mode in which the president keeps demonizing everyone from surgeons to wealthy people, while asking these various groups to pay more taxes to fund various redistributive plans -- in pursuit of an agenda (stimulus, more taxes, amnesty, cap and trade) that polls about 45% (and this from a president who in 2005-6 ridiculed Bush for pushing Social Security reform in the face of negative polls).

Read the whole thing.

Stay angry.