re: #111 Dark_Falcon

I maintain that in measures like the National Recovery Act FDR went over the line, and the Supreme Court was right to strike that law down. But other things he did, such as the FDIC and Social Security, were needed programs that solved very real problems.

In addition to New Deal policy details, about which reasonable people can disagree, there was the simple fact that the FDR administration was trying to do something about the Great Depression. The Hoover administration was apparently so bound by its ideology of non-interference with markets that doing anything visible at all was simply not an option.

IMO, a second term for Hoover would have set the stage for a home-grown revolution in the US, with disastrous results all around.