I totally agree FDR is an overrated liberal hero. He did much to get America hooked on welfare state policies. But still, I must admit I can see why so many remember him fondly, including my own grandparents. He cam around at the same time as radio. He was the first president to come into people’s homes through that medium and talk to them. For the first time in history people heard their president’s voice in their homes. Many felt they personally knew the president for the first time in history. Coupled with the Great Depression many felt he personally cared about them. His dramatic efforts to reduce the Depression caused many to feel he was personally affecting their well-being. Also coupled with that was the start of WWII. His flair for emotional speeches roused the nation to heights never before seen before to fight that war. When he died people went through grief as though a family member died. People stopped and cried in the streets.
Fortunately most of his New Deal was dismantled after the war but enough lingered on, together with the newfound belief that president’s can “control” the economy, that we now have legions of Americans who no longer believe in free market principles. We continue to suffer with that and all the ill it brings.
How I wish we had Trump in 1944 as our Leader.
Trump has completely destroyed ISIS, proving himself as a War Leader on par with Washington.
He would never have given an inch to Uncle Joe Stalin