President Jimmy Carter has passed away

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by zeroonetwothree on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:50PM (#42544211)

FDR did Japanese internment, tried court packing, and was arguably the first of the modern style of power-hungry president. He constantly threatened members of Congress that didn’t roll over and go along with his agenda. To that end he was very influential but not entirely in a good way.

He hardly ended the depression, economic conditions were poor until WW2 (eg look at the 1937 downturn, well into his tenure).

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by fakedang on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:35AM (#42546768)

Exactly. FDR is the reason that the President today has an unbalanced amount of power compared to Congress.

That being said, back then, I would argue that the situation would have been very different had a lesser person than FDR been elected president, given the kind of political climate it was around the world.

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by glial on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:53AM (#42547416)

> FDR is the reason

Well, and also every administration and Congress after him for not changing it back.

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