What are some negatives about this person?
FDR
Eli Brown
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Logan Gray
Not extending the Housing deal to African Americans, though that was part of a compromise with Republicans.
Nathan Richardson
This is a huge negative to quite a few Americans depending on perspective - FDR brought America closer to socialism than it has ever been. When Bernie Sanders gets called a socialist for espousing policies that are comparatively just FDR-lite, you know FDR had some huge balls.
Easton Fisher
Even before the war he thought of the Japs, and asians as a whole, as a lesser race
Dominic Cox
>Even before the war he thought of the Japs, and asians as a whole, as a lesser race
Like 99% of Americans thought back then? I'd wager most still feel this way, that Asians are second to whites and thus are their personal servants or something.
Hunter Morales
That is totally not unusual for the time at all though.
Bentley Taylor
But they are.
Hunter Butler
Still a negative though.
Ethan Turner
not being able to walk.
Ayden Kelly
The New Deal lengthened the Depression.
Court-packing showed he wanted to be a dictator.
Trusted the Soviets.
Ethan Williams
He let Pearl Harbor happen.
Austin Sullivan
He loved war and exploited it to propose some sensible legislation. His presidency was a yin and yang, but his positives are what he's solely remembered for.
Aaron Walker
Executive Order 9066
>Daily Reminder that if Robert E. Lee had successfully strangled the Cursed Alliance to death, Japanese-American interment would never have happened and I could have myself a Japanese farmgirl waifu.
Ethan Jones
He DID Pearl Harbor
Angel Jones
He didn't walk so good
Noah Jackson
>Not blaming it on the Yellow Dog Democrats who were apart of the New Deal Coalition
Benjamin Flores
Cry more, you white trash inbred. The Yellow Peril xenophobia phase would have been twice as bad if the rebellion won.
Blake Martinez
FDR's policies were a last ditch attempt to curb popular support for the socialist and communist parties that had been gaining traction for the past decade.
Keynesian economics =/= Marxist economics
Noah Ward
He stole the American people gold.
Joseph Sanchez
He had polio and was bound to a wheel chair
Owen Taylor
Walk a mile in his shoes before you criticise FDR, he stood up for every American. He stands for all the good in the world and planted his feet firmly in the ground in that troubling period. I wish he stood for another term, every true American would no doubt give him a standing ovation even to this day.
Ayden Bell
Attempting to illegally stack the supreme court and when that didn't work, bullying supreme court members until they retired so he could do it legally. Tyranny incarnate.
Caleb Taylor
>walk
Josiah Mitchell
He died lmao
Isaiah Davis
>The Yellow Peril xenophobia phase would have been twice as bad if the rebellion won.
>Chinese Exclusion Act was enacted by the Northern-controlled Republican Party
>Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker married white chicks, were prosperous planters, and fervent supporters of the Confederacy
>The only way to get the Eternal New Englander to stop spreading endless lies and usury is with hemp with around their neck
Eli Gutierrez
Continued the policy mistakes of his predecessor, prolonging and exacerbating the great depression.
Owen Robinson
lol its funny because polio crippled the use of his legs
Blake Walker
>three terms
awfully triggering desu
Colton Scott
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937
>The central provision of the bill would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, up to a maximum of six, for every member of the court over the age of 70 years and 6 months.
He was almost a tyrant there for a second. Also, he started the American welfare state as it exists today which is good or bad depending on the way you look at it.
Kevin Wilson
>Chinese brought in to replace blacks as severely underpaid workers
>Chinese Exclusion Act supported by labor unions because southern industry would exploit cheap immigrant labor to keep hours low
>Later repealed by a Democratic Congress under FDR
>Thinking in anyway a Rebellion win would mean any less xenophobia
When's the South going to rise again, Skeeter?
David Cox
Ahh yes because FDR didn't have the power of veto.
Lucas Perry
Think of the political and public stir a veto causes. FDR, in all his terms, vetoed a total of 635 times, 9 of which were overridden by congress. For comparison, Obama has vetoed 10 times.
Angel Clark
by hours I meant wages
Asher Williams
>FDR 665 times
>Obama 10 times
Wouldn't that mean it'd be less unusual for FDR to veto?
The guy was immensely popular and had 75% of congress and the judiciary.