My Grandmother came from a big GOP family, she voted Dem in every election in the 30’s and 40’s her fear...the economy would decline and her family would be on the verge of starvation as in in 32 and 33. She voted for Eisenhower the war hero because she trusted him. It was a matter of trust. By allowing people to literally starve, Hoover destroyed the trust of the American people in Republicans...for 20 years. He wasn’t a bad man...but was no the man who could handle the depression...hopefully we are not seeing a repeat. It feels like 1932.
Well, mine voted Democrat throughout her lifetime (from 1932, her first legal Presidential election, clear up until 1996, if not 2000, if she cast a vote from the nursing home) and she ingrained that hatred of Republicans onto her children (my father was so browbeaten, it took me to finally drag him across in the ‘80s). My aunt is a booster for La Raza (she is NOT Hispanic), my half-sister IS a Communist. So you get an idea of the kind of damage that gets proliferated by misguidedness and falsehoods being spread generation after generation.
And again, I vigorously and vociferously reject your tagging of Hoover as evil incarnate. I hope you read that article “Yongin” pinged you to putting to rest this nonsense that FDR “cured” the Depression with his misguided policies.