Don't get yourself wrong. FDR was at best a middle of the road social democrat who was trying to ward off the actual leftists (people like Huey Long and Upton Sinclair) and it's often not mentioned how many Republicans crossed party lines to support him due to Hoover's utter failure. All candidates they ran from 1936 onward accepted at least some of the New Deal platform and the handful of grug laisse-faire libertarians in the party were pretty irrelevant. Of course the Democrats had a few of those too especially in the South such as &quot;Cotton Ed&quot; Smith. <|endoftext|> 