My mom will be 93. I’m pretty sure she voted “R”, but she did say something like “Well - Obama has a lot of the same ideas as FDR had, and he got us out of the Depression.”
At 93 I’m not going to argue with her. My dad (RIP) hated FDR (and JFK) with a passion. So obviously can’t lump the “old folks” all in one mind. But, a lot of them liked FDR, and that thinking probably brought us the likes of JFK and Johnson and the “Great Society” as well.
Yes, they were the American generations that chose an “El Presidente for Life”, even his attempt to take over the Supreme Court was overlooked, the 1935 to 1975 era was the darkest era in American history, and it killed us, there is no recovery from the JFK, Teddy, 1965 immigration act possible.