But the Schechter brothers supported FDR in 1936 as the "American" thing to do. Jews lived in cities and assimilated into the welfare grievance culture.
Because the Republicans of the day were largely isolationists or openly supported Hitler.
There were isolationists on both sides. Plenty of Jews supported Norman Thomas, who was a member of the America First Committee. And the communists were functional allies of the Nazis from September 1939 until June 1941.
I would agree with you that the "National Recovery Act" was "fascist" in the sense that it set up government-supervised cartels of businesses and unions that dictated wages and prices in various industries and localities. And the outrageous way that the NRA was promoted with parades, etc. smacked of facsist and communist regimes abroad.
But I would disagree when you say that it banned kosher butchering. The Schecter Brothers case against the New Dealers was not a First Amendment freedom of religion case, but rather rooted in the government's denial of their right to contract with their customers. That SCOTUS had the guts to rule 9-0 in favor of the Schecters against the Roosevelt Administration tyrants.
But the Schechter brothers supported FDR in 1936 as the "American" thing to do.
Didn't know that. If they did, I would suggest they may have been intimidated. Roosevelt and pals were not without friends in the underworld, especially in big cities.