This is the most detailed rebuke I have seen yet. Thank you for adding this to the conversation.<p>My weasley counterpoint is to say that FDR ultimately made more right moves than wrong, and he did not become, as he feared, &quot;the last president&quot;.<p>Economic manipulation aside, his public works initiatives like the Tennessee valley authority gave people good work when there was none, and strengthened our national infrastructure for the economy to use as it grew. The common conclusion is that the only real cure for the Great Depression was World War II, but from a Mars-eye view, wasn&#x27;t that essentially an <i>enormous</i> public works program?