The ONE time Americans had a president who stood for the working man...

he’s a social democrat you moron

Democratic socialist is still commie, dude.

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SOCIAL.
DEMOCRAT.
By that logic Huey Long was a commie.

Sure.

>A Democrat and an outspoken populist, Long denounced the wealthy elites and the banks. Initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first 100 days in office, Long eventually came to believe that Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies did not do enough to alleviate the issues of the poor. In time, he developed his own solution: the "Share Our Wealth" program, which would establish a net asset tax, the earnings of which would be redistributed.

That's distilled commie for you.

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alri literal 90 year old

Why was Long someone who was quoted on record as saying “I’m trying to save America from communism”

Because he was a populist demagogue and those time America consider the word 'communism' as a obscene C-word?

Based

Why did George Wallace say “I have never made a racist speech before” on the campaign trail in 1968 besides for literally basing his entire first half of his entire political career trying to maintain segregation, and famously said “segregation now! segregation tomorrow! and segregation forever!” at his inaugural address, and literally physically (as in, in person) stopped black students from attending U of Alabama? Because he was trying to secure his support of his base that were feeling some shame in loving the beliefs he promoted, as they were becoming stigmatized.

Same reason with Long. His base were told socialism and communism were evil, and since near all of the electorate in Louisana were white during his time and very distrustful of subscribing to any ideology that valued complete and absolute egalitarianism, fearing that it will cause racial desegregation and co-mingling together, Huey just sold his soc-dem policies as being consistent and legitimate with previous poverty relief programs and not radical. He sometimes said absurd shit like that for the hell of it. The dude literally made the Lousiana legislature hold sessions just so he could walk in and interrupt them and insult them from the podium.

Unironically one of the most BASED human beings to ever exist.

FUCKING BASED! LIBS BTFO!

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What the fuck is that image?

hello boomer

some BASED MAGApedes TRIGGERING the libs

It was over in most of Europe by 1935.

Americans know this. FDR is hailed by many on both sides as the greatest American president. Everyone at least agrees he saved America for the time being anyway.

>Modern libs won't acknowledge this guy was an unabashed racist, supported limiting/restricting immigration from "undesirable" countries, threw Japs in camps, and firebombed Tokyo without remorse

At the same time yes, he was a quasi socialist and populist. Very polarizing figure in US history as he consolidated a lot of unprecedented power in the executive branch. There's a reason why you don't know much about prior Presidents other than Lincoln, they tended to be minor in comparison to Congress. FDR flipped the switch.

And so it was rumored that Roosevelt had Long bumped off as he was a potentially dangerous challenger in the 1936 presidential election.

>get attacked by major power
>go to war
>this requires a war economy
WOAH
LIBS BTFO

>Modern libs won't acknowledge this guy was an unabashed racist

He once told the NAACA that he could not sponsor a Federal anti-lynching bill because Southern Congressmen might not support the New Deal.

I don’t believe his actions towards the jews seeking asylum nor the japanese citizens living in the country were justified, and in fact were quite reprehensible, but overall his presidency made this country the most prosperous and influential in the world; eventually paving the way towards civil rights for all under the succeeding democratic administrations.

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Do you then also think the Japanese internment camps were justified because we were at war.

You know you can like someone overall without liking 100% of the things they do, right?

>but overall his presidency made this country the most prosperous and influential in the world

Uh, no it didn't. America was a superpower in all but name by the last decade of the 19th century.

So who is he? Was he that great of a president? But how come the current US are having Donald Trump? Have Americans been degenerating?

Not just that. He straight up said he didn't want to let any niggers, Jews, or asians in. He didn't call Jesse Owens after 1936, didn't even acknowledge him. He was a white supremacist, just didn't get painted badly by historians because he was on the "good side".

If you look at the factions of WW2 they were ALL racist and nationalistic lol. Nazis got left holding the door by history

Yes.

Not allowing Jewish refugees in was unfortunate although understandable since jobs were in short supply and we could not conceivably take in yet more people to compete for work with over 15% unemployment. We did take in Albert Einstein and other Jewish intellectuals, because they were potentially useful to us. We did not need another 100,000 or so unskilled laborers in Brooklyn when Americans needed those jobs.

>Same reason with Long. His base were told socialism and communism were evil,

Contemporary events in Russia in the 1930s ought to have born that out.

Ah, yes. The president that put America back on the track and all it took was 4 terms and the biggest war mankind ever had. FDR was a hack.

Most of Roosevelt's policies were ad-libbed and not conducted with any sort of long term planning in mind. A good example would be Social Security, which was implemented mostly as a way of inducing older people to retire and free up jobs for the young unemployed.

Or there were the farm subsidies, conceived as an emergency measure and never repealed, still a vast money sink to the present day.

>It'd be like the religious right supporting an anti-gay activist after we found out he was trolling airport bathrooms for dick.

Did you also know that LBJ, another Democrat god, hired staffer and future PBS hack Bill Moyer to play detective and find out if other members of his staff were gay (Moyer pretends he doesn't remember this ever happening).

If you say so.

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