I do respect Truman for his decision to A-bomb the Japanese (or Nips or Japs as they were almost universally known then)and end the war.
True. I cannot condemn Harry Truman for everything, because he was a massive improvement over FDR.
But I can’t decide if that really shows how much I dislike what FDR did, or how much I like what Truman did in comparison.
A basic difference between the two in my mind is that I believe FDR liked what was going on in the Soviet Union (I know his POS wife Eleanor certainly did) but I don’t think Truman did. I think Truman just seemed to take the side of the liberals who had communist sympathies simply because they were Democrats and not Republicans.
I think if the Republicans had their ranks riddled with communist sympathizers in the same fashion the Democratic party did, there would never have been a need for someone like Joe McCarthy, because Truman would have had them all tracked down himself. But because they were Democrats, he felt the need to protect them.