"FDR was an internationalist in an isolationist age." [View all]

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PBS' The Roosevelt's Episode 5:

FDR at the 1936 Democratic convention:

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Governments can err. Presidents do make mistakes. But the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales.

Better the occasional fault of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omission of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Always interesting how history repeats itself. Once again we have economic royalists who complain "that we seek to take away their power". Once again we have an isolationist "America First" republican to run against. Once again we have extremely high income inequality and insecurity.