[SmokingJoe]

FDR was actually a pretty shrewd canny fellow. You don't win the presidential elections four times in a row by being naive or stupid, especially since he was a cripple (from polio) for most of that period. He managed to outmaneuver his political opponents over a long period of time.

[nickcarraway]

Well, you need to read up on how the New Deal was a system to buy votes.

Significantly though, he couldn't do anything to end the Depression. (Except start a war.)

But he was horrible as predicted, on foreign policy. He allowed himself to be made Churchill's lap dog. More than any other country, the U.S. lost WWII.

Germany, Japan, and Russia got new leases on life.

)Side note: When Germany invaded Russia, Stalin hid in his Dacha for a week, and the country was paralyzed.

Finally Beria, Molotov, and someone else went to his Dacha to see what was going on. Stalin thought they were coming to have him arrested and executed. That's how close it was.