> FDR was a fascist. One of the worst anti-constitutionalists. A devoted ‘progressive’. <
I agree with your last two points, at least. FDR is one of the people responsible for the huge increase in the federal government’s power.
But in my post I was looking at FDR as a war president only. In that roll he did a very good (but not perfect) job. In less than four years after Pearl Harbor, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were both finished. Erased from this world. No more influence. FDR deserves a lot of credit for that.
Contrast that with the slow, endless war in Afghanistan. Which we will eventually lose. It will end just as the Vietnam war ended. Helicopters taking off from the roof of the US embassy.
It can also be argued that radical Islam is stronger and more pervasive today than it was before 9/11.
(Sorry for the rant. And it’s not that I love FDR. It’s just I’m bitterly disappointed in George W. Bush.)
“But in my post I was looking at FDR as a war president only. In that roll he did a very good (but not perfect) job. “
I see it the other way around. He got us into a war. Democrats do that.