True Or False: Bernie Sanders Is The Closest We Will Come To An FDR Democrat In Our Lifetimes ???

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8. FDR was a millionaire (back when the word meant something) who shepherded the nation

through a very challenging economic period and the worst war known to modern humankind. He was not "universally beloved" particularly before the war. People who hated him, hated him rather enthusiastically. Many found him autocratic (Court packing...? Imagine Bush trying to pull that stunt! Imagine SANDERS trying to sell it...!).

He directed the creation of the atomic bomb, he incarcerated Japanese people for the crime of their ethnicity without any due process, did the same (albeit on a much smaller scale) to some German and Italian Americans, and he kicked the can down the road when it came to starting to address issues of equality and desegregation with the black community. Ironically, his 'raised racist' VP was the one who started the ball rolling with the desegregation of the Armed Forces.

FDR's term was shaped by grave challenges. Not sure if anyone would have liked him at all if he'd exhibited those same "My way or the highway" prerogatives in a mellow, peacetime environment with a more robust economy.