Mr David
I reiterate that you haven’t looked at the economic data. It is true that in 1936 America had partially recovered but it was nothing to write home but it plunged again in 1937-38 and for the improvement in 1940 by then war had already started and America was selling like mad to the French (until June), British and Canadians. Also “practically the whole New Deal was extrapolated from programs that Hoover started.” (a quote from New Dealer Rexford Tugwell).
Also you know nothing about European history. When Roosevelt took his oath Gerrany had a 100,000 men Reischwehr, had no heavy artillery, had zero tanks and zero planes. She only had a tiny Navy without any capital ship and zero submarines.
So in addition to his failure in prepare America militarily (did I mention torpedoes who didn’t explode?) he was (rightly IMHO) heading into we can remember how organized crime grew under his guard (and how he got the Democratic nomination under his guard), how he alienated De Gaulle and made France a neare ennemy for decaxdes to come, how he handled half Europe to Stalin and how under its watch that American administration was inflitrated by hundreds if not thousands of Soviet agents only a tiny part of which (under 200 over 700 sources that the FBI was aware from the small part of Soviet radio traffic it could unencrypt) was purged during McCarthyism.
That is for your great man FDR.
