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title: But boss, them ain't windmills! Them's Democrats!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-but-boss-them-aint-windmills-1938/
description: An armoured knight on a horse labelled 'New Deal' charges with a lance toward three men labelled Smith, George and Chandler.
section: Collection
---

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[![But boss, them ain't windmills! Them's Democrats!, 1938 US cartoon: An armoured knight on a horse labelled 'New Deal' charges](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-but-boss-them-aint-windmills-1938.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-but-boss-them-aint-windmills-1938.jpg)

# But boss, them ain't windmills! Them's Democrats!

An armoured knight on a horse labelled 'New Deal' charges with a lance toward three men labelled Smith, George and Chandler, who raise their arms behind a bank; a squire in a hat labelled 'Garner' rides a donkey beside him and says 'But boss, them ain't windmills! Them's Democrats!' The tell is transfer: the Don Quixote and Sancho Panza story is borrowed to cast the charge as a mistaken fight.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
---BUT BOSS, THEM AIN'T WINDMILLS! THEM'S DEMOCRATS!
NEW DEAL
GARNER
SMITH
GEORGE
CHANDLER
Jim Berryman
```

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