FDR wasn’t as great of a president as people make him out to be.
FDR’s presidency wasn’t as glorious as people should make it out to be. His new deal policies prolonged the Great Depression, with many economic historians believing it stalled recovery from 1933 onward and his own treasury secretary Henry Morganthau stating that we spent more during the great new deal era than we ever had before but now we also have a bigger debt. So as far as pulling America out of the Great Depression we should be giving more thanks to Hitler for invading Poland in 1939 because that’s when our economy started to come back up again.
Everyone already knows about Japanese internment camps so I’m not gonna harp on that but will say it seemed to create a small standard amongst “great presidents” from that point on cause during the Obama administration migrant children were placed in chain link enclosures, sometimes called “cages” and now the republitards praise Heir Trump and he’s done the same damn thing except he separates families in the process.
“Before FDR took office, unemployment in 1931 was 16.3%, affecting over eight million Americans. By 1939, after nearly two terms and extensive New Deal spending, unemployment had risen to 17.2%, leaving over nine million Americans jobless.”
Source - https://fee.org/articles/fdrs-folly-how-roosevelt-and-his-new-deal-prolonged-the-great-depression/