He ran on fairly boilerplate need for and promises of change in the midst of conservative-created disaster, but nothing like what his administration ultimately achieved.
But, after all, the electorate gave Democrats control of the presidency and both houses of congress (for the next 12 years!), and with that power -- and with the great people who answered the call of their government to serve, what's attributed to FDR happened. Most of the big opposition came through the courts; there was no McConnell, so to speak, keeping his knee on the neck of congress.
I believe if we have the same power for 8 years we will achieve great things and for much the same big reasons: as then, the nation NEEDS it desperately now and is calling for it -- both necessary advances to catch up with and anticipate needs and the opportunity to use the requirement to fix what's broken to rebuild even better. And because we have the same kind of people to do it now as we had then.
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