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.
Very good points in your post #44 re Truman. Unlike many Dems of his day, and especially today’s Demonrats, Truman was an anti-Communist. But he was also a rabidly partisan Demo who, as you pointed out, did not have an interest in exposing the far lefties in his party.