1. Yeah, for good or for bad FDR did save capitalism.
As much as the cons hate to admit it without FDR's presidency capitalism probably would have faltered and we would have probably become socialist. Revolution was in the air and FDR put an end to it before it got off the ground.
3. It's amazing when you go back and look at FDR's speeches...
... the stuff he says would be lambasted as class warfare today. He would verbally destroy, as he put it, "the malefactors of great wealth" and the exploitation of the many by the wealthy few without batting an eye. Now if a candidate mentions class during a campaign he is branded a socialist or worse.
It takes spectacular times to bring about great men like him.
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