Discombobulated
Gold Member
There were plenty of people who despised Roosevelt while he was in often. If you don't believe it, then you should read anything that H.L. Mencken had to say about him. After the war he became virtually a god, so it was difficult to make any of your ilk see the truth about him. It's only now that scholars have started seriously examining his record rather than engage in pure worship.
Rightwingers hate FDR for the same reasons they hate all liberals. Rightwingers hate FDR not because he once said something favorable about something about Mussolini;
they hate him because he irreversibly advanced liberalism. Rightwingers hate FDR because he won,
and they lost.
"....he once said something favorable about something about Mussolini;..."
Not just once.
BTW....he had the same view of Hitler's economic policies until the ovens were revealed.
" Fascism did not acquire an evil name in Washington until Hitler became a menace to•the Soviet Union."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p. 48
Do you ever talk about history in anything but the most superficial terms possible?