Posted on 08/08/2025 12:06:27 PM PDT by TBP
“America could use a leader ... who operates within the American cultural and political tradition, who has a populist connection to and genuine concern with the people who aren’t among the privileged, who is competent and capable of leadership and execution at the highest level, and who has a mindset towards building, beauty, institutional change, and national greatness.”
Sounds like he is describing President Trump. Forget FDR.
Yes he is, really needs to study FDR the president with communists in office appointed by him. Between FRD and Wilson most of today’s problems can be laid at their feet.
Describes himself thusly. I think he is a bit all over the board. He says some of the right things, but a lot of it seems to be attacking "traditional" conservatism, while trying to "fix" conservatism Going from traditional conservatism say as practiced in "solidly red" Indiana including a "Republican governor since Mitch Daniels was elected in 2004." Pence, anyone?
Now if you want to talk about how the American slouching towards Gomorrah has been going on ever since the New Deal, and how the GOP has been marhing step and step with the democrats, that's fine. But that's not conservatism. That's RINOism, like Pence.
Franklin DeLano Romanowski?
Beautiful WPA parks in Minnesota. Incredible.
FDR was a socialist surrounded by communists.
This is a classic apples-oranges piece where the setting today versus the 1930-40’s simply doesn’t lend itself to comparisons. FDR’s approach to things in today’s environment simply wouldn’t work.
As far as WWII, I think any normal president could have played a similar role in that war, I think the great wartime president was Reagan, there was no automatic end to the Cold War, in fact it seemed impossible to end and that history was on Russia’s side, Reagan brought his personal decades old strategy to the forever war and did something unique, while most any competent president could have been in charge during WWII.
Something revealing about El Presidente for Life? The Protestant vote (the most conservative American voters) went against him in his last two elections.
Nope - socialism and the Great Depression. Don’t need that.
Wilkie would have been a better wartime President than FDR, although Wilkie really was a Democrat who ran as a Republican.
Churchill’s mother was an American.
My parents loved Roosevelt. They hated Truman. And they particularly disliked Bess Truman.
I'm the exact opposite. In my opinion, Truman, Reagan, and Trump were the only great Presidents after the year 1900.
Truman was a far better President than Roosevelt, and I love Bess Truman.
FDR thought he was above limiting himself to two terms. There are a lot of dead people who thought they were indispensable
FDR was a socialist surrounded by communists.
Especially his VP, Henry Wallace. Thank God he ditched him for Truman.
Abraham Lincoln was not a conservative, he was a liberal.
His presidency saw the largest rise of government power in history up to that time. He favored High Taxes, Protectionism, Expensive government projects, Major give aways to large corporations (Railways act of 1862), Social *CHANGE*.
He was a sleazy northern Lawyer. Just as the Democrats have fled Texas to deny a quorum, he fled the Statehouse in Illinois to deny the legislature a quorum. (by Jumping out a window.) He was a non-Christian, and mocked Christianity in private. (According to his long term law partner William Herndon.)
Lincoln was involved in a railroad swindle in Illinois that cost the state some 13 million dollars.
He was the closest thing to a dictator this nation had ever seen. He initiated a war that killed 750,000 people directly, and perhaps millions indirectly. He Violated constitutional law without hesitancy, and he created the corrupt "Deep State" that made the DC bureaucracy the permanent ruling class in this nation.
The period following his presidency was regarded as the most corrupt in US History. He traded bribes for political favors, and he used the government to threaten people who opposed him.
He used Mafia like tactics to secure his nomination for the presidency. (In corrupt old Chicago)
The nation would have been far better off if William Seward had won the nomination, as he rightfully would have done but for the fact of all of Lincoln's hired thugs who intimidated, bribed, shouted down, and tricked the delegates at the convention. The thugs were bused in by the railroad corporations on their railroads, just like the modern day Democrats did with their hired thugs. Lincoln worked for the railroads, and rewarded them greatly when he took power.
Lincoln was a liberal.
How do you feel about illegal aliens voting in American elections?
You can’t make silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Calvin Coolidge.
I find it amusing and appropriate that, in Savannah, the Truman Parkway is an amazing and important traffic artery connecting the northern and southern sections of the city, with an exit ramp on the comparatively small street named for Eisenhower. I don’t think there’s anything named for Roosevelt there.
FDR was dyed-in-the-wool progressive who turned a blind eye to marxists all around him and subverted the Constitution for another 100 years
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