FDR was a hard leftist.
Many in the democratic party at that time were communist.
They still are.
My folks used to call FDR the Great White Father.
It was the New Deal and Social Security that caused my father to become a Republican.
They didn’t look at this ‘historically.’ They lived it, having come into their own prior to the 1st Great Depression.
Interesting out the interviewer works to deny that there even is a Left, only a Center-left - “like Europe’s Center-Right.”
FDR was a progressive guilty about being rich with money he did not earn himself socialist
But he was not politically correct and all the cultural leftism we endure was virtually unknown to him
The left is worse now across the board
Most leftists even then were patriotic when push came to shove
They are not now
They view America and Europe basically all things white Christian and male as oppression causative and the root of social injustice and inequality