FDR was the very last president who cared about American workers. He supported union organization and worked with America's socialists and communists to produce a powerful industrial sector with great wages and ever-improving working conditions. Taxing the wealthy at 94% of any amount over $400,000 (in today's dollars) pulled America out of the Great Depression and carried us right through WWII.
He introduced Social Security and unemployment benefits, which still help people even today.
As to the downsides of his presidency America was pretty racist in the 1930s, so your use of "despite" in regard to his policies on race seems to indicate that you have a poor grasp of history.
If you look at his time in office, it was crisis after crisis. First there was the Great Depression, followed immediately by WWII. FDR actually campaigned on don't change during a crisis. FDR became sort of America's security blanket.
FDR was in office for so long (12 years) that many entered adulthood and went off to war not knowing anything other than FDR in the White House. So, many were scared to change. Better the devil you know than the one you don't. That doesn't make FDR popular.
FDR is the reason we now have Presidential term limits.
And instituting The Communistic Social Security. How dare the state take peoples money and decide how much they're going to give back and win. That is so unconstitutional it reeks.
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FDR was the very last president who cared about American workers. He supported union organization and worked with America's socialists and communists to produce a powerful industrial sector with great wages and ever-improving working conditions. Taxing the wealthy at 94% of any amount over $400,000 (in today's dollars) pulled America out of the Great Depression and carried us right through WWII.
He introduced Social Security and unemployment benefits, which still help people even today.
As to the downsides of his presidency America was pretty racist in the 1930s, so your use of "despite" in regard to his policies on race seems to indicate that you have a poor grasp of history.
If you look at his time in office, it was crisis after crisis. First there was the Great Depression, followed immediately by WWII. FDR actually campaigned on don't change during a crisis. FDR became sort of America's security blanket.
FDR was in office for so long (12 years) that many entered adulthood and went off to war not knowing anything other than FDR in the White House. So, many were scared to change. Better the devil you know than the one you don't. That doesn't make FDR popular.
FDR is the reason we now have Presidential term limits.
And instituting The Communistic Social Security. How dare the state take peoples money and decide how much they're going to give back and win. That is so unconstitutional it reeks.
Because he was a democrat, if he was a republican he would have been post-posthumously attacked by today's left.
Because in war times people tend to like leaders more. I think thats mostly what it was. And he was better then Roosevelt.