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.
How did the U.S. lose World War II?
And that is new how?
Politicians have been buying votes since there was politics. You do what you gotta do to win.
Again, FDR was as shrewd and canny as they come. He even managed to hide the fact that he was a cripple from most Americans and went on to win presidential elections four times in a row despite his handicap.
Significantly though, he couldn't do anything to l end the Depression. (Except start a war.)
There you go. If it took a war to end the depression and get the economy booming, he was going to do it. Not to mention he wanted to get into the war on the side of the Brits from the get go. He could kill two birds with one stone and he did.
Now you are bordering on the bizarre. More than any other country, the US came out if WWII stronger in every way, economically, militarily, etc than any other country on the planet. By far.
And FDR was nobody’s lap dog.