[PapaNew]

When I look at FDR, I don’t think about WWII. I think, “There is the first President to openly and unapologetically abandon the Rule of Law of the Constitution, which protects our freedom, and attempt to replace it with his own code of ethics ushering in the Rule of Man, which is tyranny.”

[colorado tanker]

FDR's threat to pack the Supreme Court, which most think he would have carried out, caused the Court to roll over and become a rubber stamp on his programs. As a result, in 1942, the Supreme Court ruled that under New Deal legislation the government could prohibit an Ohio farmer from growing wheat solely for his own family's consumption under the Commerce Clause power. There is a direct path to the later approval of Obamacare.

Of course, there were times when Roosevelt didn't bother to get permission from the courts, like when he seized Montgomery Ward.

Roosevelt was a great war leader, but his domestic programs were a disaster. The economy in 1938 was no better than in 1932.