[se_ohio_young_conservative]

FDR had some creepy ideas

but...

The Republican party of the early 1930s was made up of guys who thought Benito Mossawhatver was a good guy !

that was a very spooky time in our history and I feel like past is prologue

[Reily]

I don't know about the GOP. But FDR's early New Deal’ers were very impressed with “El Duce” handling of the Italian economy. People forget that fascism was one of the 2 favorite philosophies for the intellectual elite.

[decimon]

Mussolini was initially a very popular guy. Someone recently called him the Che of his era.

Here’s an old favorite, The Mystery of Fascism: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916286/posts

[marktwain]

The Republican party of the early 1930s was made up of guys who thought Benito Mossawhatver was a good guy !

Yes, the Progressives, both Republican and Democrat, loved Mussolini. A lot of the Democrats also loved Stalin. A lot of Progressives loved Hitler before he attacked the Soviet Union.

FDR was our version of Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler. The depression ended when his heart stopped beating. When I first read that, I was taken aback... upon reflection it appears to be correct.

[ModelBreaker]

“The Republican party of the early 1930s was made up of guys who thought Benito Mossawhatver was a good guy !”

Progressives were a large part of the R party then, including Herbert Hoover. Teddy Roosevelt had not been out of power that long. The left wing progressives were also quite fond of Benito, Adolf and Uncle Joe, although they were generally fondest of Uncle Joe.