It's interesting how FDR, Churchill, and DeGaulle's patriotism is still considered heroic today /only/ because it placed them in opposition to Hitler. All these great leaders would be under the progressive bus today if WW2 hadn't happened.
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FDR was the American Hugo Chavez, took the country to war when his new deal began to fall apart. -
I'm not saying his economic agenda was great, but at least he didn't hate his own people.
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My grandparents talked about how unified the country felt during that time. Hmmm... They talked about the increased bargaining power of labor. Hmmm... They also talked about the strong, conmunalistic values of the era. Hmmm... What if that was connected to something else?
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From a family perspective... The "conservatives" of my family loved my grandparents and admired their communal, self-effacing values. 30s/40s New Deal values. The "liberals" had a "screw you dad" attitude and got caught up in the 60s/70s counterculture. FDR, an alt-right icon.
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Um, er, didn't he import lots of scientists that helped build the bomb that ended the war in the Pacific and would have ended the war in Europe anyway?
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Retail vs wholesale immigration.
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OTOH, if he weren't so intent on making a depression into the Great Depression, there wouldn't have been any challenge to holding the country together.
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All that precious social capital, squandered on socialism and NWO imperialism. Woulda been okay, but then we went and blew it on civil rights, the sexual revolution, and immigration. Ah, well. Had a good run.
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During the 30s we deported large numbers of Mexicans. 2.0.
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he furthermore managed to do this while still taking in more refugees from 1933-1945 than the rest of the world combined (source: conrad black's fdr bio)
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Yeah, he had the welcome immigrants rounded up and put in camps, and he had the unwelcome immigrants shot, right?
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Are you aware of the Niihau Incident where the first Japanese Americans to learn about Pearl Harbor immediately committed treason? Internment camps were a sensible precaution.
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The spray and pray approach to infrastructure/renewal projects made for entertaining government as well.
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Tangent: how many Japanese were killed in FDR's internment camps vs how many Americans were killed in Japanese POW camps?
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Perhaps if past leaders had been a little less permissive about immigration or foreign intervention (looking at you Pres Wilson) the public zeitgeist would have allowed him more political flexibility on such matters?
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