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I would recommend reading up on FDR's tenure before casting stones.

• ben_w 3y ago
  There was a whole lot of stuff FDR did, and that he failed to do, that would be today considered reprehensible acts of commission and omission. But as FDR died before almost half of US pensioners today were born, and the US Constitution got an extra amendment to stop presidents serving three terms like he did, that's a weak argument. Also that the omissions were e.g. "didn't push for federal anti lynching laws because he thought southern states would block it" and "only stopped ethnic cleansing of Mexican Americans at federal level not state level", which leaves the commission of being openly racist towards Japanese as an ethnic group… which was a pretty severe issue even though rounding them up into concentration camps was ruled constitutional at the time.