re: #107 EPR-radar

For some time now, I’ve thought that conservatives should like FDR much more than they usually do. A case can be made that FDR did a nearly minimal amount of market meddling, given the Great Depression and the possibility of extremist solutions in the US from both the left and the right if vigorous actions weren’t taken to try and make the existing system work better.

A second term for Hoover doesn’t really bear thinking about as an alternate history scenario.

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.