[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the fact is communism and anarchism were global threats, and FDR’s later attempts to soften the impact of the Depression indicated that he knew it was a very real threat here.

. . . so he hired hundreds of Alger Hiss types to “save capitalism from itself."

[kearnyirish2]

He knew he had to do something; I’m no fan of FDR, but when conditions get bad enough, poor people flock to communism, and the reaction flocks to fascism. Thankfully we in the US never had to watch those factions fight it out in our streets while most of Europe did.