You are exactly correct...this happened just as you say. Freepers don’t understand that this is the real issue...I have a hard time explaining. You did a much better job. This is why I say a move to the right is meaningless unless the GOP congress can establish that they are competent...they have to do more than say no also...develop their own plans and get the word out.
People look at history and see different things according to their belief system. I was trained as a scientist in the old days... put aside personal prejudices and let the data speak. Sometimes it says things you don’t like too. Roosevelt was elected 4 times not because people loved him...he did things that people did not like (trying to pack the Supreme court is one example). However, the GOP was viewed as incompetent thanks to Hoover-who’s policies did not work (especially the fed policies). People starved and many died under Hoover...they did not soon forget. It was 20 years before a GOP president was elected.
The problem is that a lot more people starved, died and went homeless under FDR than Hoover (and let us not forget he greatly exacerbated the Depression). FDR saddled us with gov’t programs that we still haven’t rid ourselves of today and should’ve long ago. If it wasn’t for his record on war policy (which at least helped to kick the GOP out of its isolationist naivete), I’d regard him domestically as the biggest Presidential disaster in the history of the Republic.