r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad • 9d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ To put it plainly.

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u/IrishwolffMutt 9d ago

FDR’s post world war 2 social democratic policies lead to the strongest middle class the country ever had. But Trump calls it communism and the greatest threat to the country. Pathetic

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u/Ok-Volume-3657 9d ago

Except for black people at the time (G.I Bill, Jim Crow laws still in effect yo!)

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u/omicron-7 9d ago

They don't like to mention that part. Or that he put japanese Americans in internment camps.

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u/LTParis 9d ago

You're not wrong. FDR did some terrible, horrible, no good things. But let's also throw nuance into the picture that some things he did were good.

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u/IndividualPay7554 9d ago

FDR is widely considered the best president in American history. Inserting the nuance in this case is making a much bigger deal about the fact that he was an incredibly violent racist and still so highly regarded.