Let’s be clear. FDR would have interned your family if you had lived in his time - and he had no problem upholding the power of the Jim Crow era Southern Dixiecrats. So stick that in your pipe mister, “get rid of all the identity politics.”
There was also significant criticism from the left of FDR’s policies. He was viewed as too close to Wall Street, and was accused of upholding a system ought to be done away with.
I have no doubt that you would have been a critic of FDR if you lived during his time. You’d surely have thrown your lot behind someone like Huey Long who said the following of Roosevelt:
"When I saw him spending all his time of ease and recreation with the big partners of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with such men as the Astors and company, maybe I ought to have had better sense than to have believed he would ever break down their big fortunes to give enough to the masses to end poverty.”
Does this line of criticism sound like anyone we know?
What?!!! The Nation?!!!
