Just remember Jeremiah 17:5. It may certainly be that Walker and Cruz have character that is superior to FDR, but they are up against a machine that wasn’t around in FDR’s day (but which FDR did promote heavily); and we do not presently have a British ally as strong as it was in those days nor leadership there of the caliber of Churchill. Even worse, the private morality of the populace is heavily degraded. And even with the ravages that the Federal Reserve was starting to wreak, the dollar was worth far more then than today, as was the pound sterling.
We do well to recall in this context that hope and fortitude are virtues and that despair is sinful. In the dark days of Cold War defeats, who could have imagined that America would elect someone — a former actor at that — who would reinvigorate the country and our allies and shove the USSR into its grave? Yet so it was, and our difficulties and dangers are not as severe now as they were then. Free peoples are capable of not just folly but also of great accomplishments. We may fail against the challenges that we face, but were are not destined to fail. Our fate is in our hands.