As an American, I still consider Churchill a better leader than Roosevelt. Roosevelt was a socialist who cozied up too close to Uncle Joe. Churchill recognized the evil regime of both Hitler and Stalin before many would listen.
Churchill may have been the greatest leader of the 20th Century. He was the only cabinet-level leader of a major combatant in both wars, and continued active in public life into the 1950’s.
I totally agree about FDR.
He was at least as radical for his time as the Big Zero is for ours, and his super-majorities in Congress lasted much longer than (hopefully!) O's will.
Remember, back in those dark days there was ONLY the "mainstream media," no Free Republic (!), no Tea Parties, nothing to counterbalance FDR's socialist programs.
All that said, it's also important to remember that for every American who died in WWII, at least 100 Soviets died, and for every German soldier Americans killed, Stalin's boys killed at least 10.
And, imho, it was a simple trade-off: if the Ruskies kill fewer Germans, that means Americans and Brits have to kill more.
And, overall Germans were the best soldiers of the war -- they did not die cheaply.
So, if Franklin Roosevelt had to kiss Stalin's *ss to keep Russians in the war, then so be it.
On several occasions Stalin attempted to make a separate peace with Hitler.
Then where would our dads and granddads have been?
How many of us would even be here today? ;-)