FDR had almost unlimited power to carry out his agenda though and the circumstances that propelled his legacy to the top really hinged on WWII. His 2nd term was a disaster.
I'd argue that trying to stay in the good graces of a slight majority of the electorate will always pull the president back to the middle regardless of where they start from. That's just modern government. If you don't, the people will give you
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And he got elected TWICE after that anyway.
It isn't that simple. The American public was not going to elect a new president during the largest conflict in human history.And he got elected TWICE after that anyway.
He gave poor people help.
It's really that simple.
And he joined forces with communists to defeat fascism.
If he ran in 2020, Chris Matthews would be crying in the rain while accusing FDR of being literally Hitler, though.
Centrism. YUCK.
So its the media influencing people to not vote for Progressives now? Got it. So Bob Iger, the Redstone family, the Roberts family, John Stankey and the DNC are determining our elections?
Its not voters themselves deciding they don't want these candidates? Obama was not wanted by the "powers that be". They wanted Hilary. Yet he convinced voters to choose him in the primaries. Why can't today's progressive candidates do the same? Obama was a black man named Hussein running against a white woman who was married to a President and he won! In the midst of the greatest Recession since the 1930s. This black man convinced millions of racist White Americans to vote him into the White House in a period where the wrong choice could've sent us into financial purgatory. And they still choose his black ass. If he can do that...these progressive candidates today have no excuse...their failures are a reflection on how weak they are. The system is no more unfair than it was twelves years ago. They are weak. End of story. Bernie is not a President. No one sees a President when they look at him. No one can imagine him being in the same room as Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or Erdogan. He's not what you think of, when you think of an American leader. He's a self-righteous quack that has good ideas but, cant work well with others or command respect and that's why he was thoroughly rejected twice. Elizabeth Warren was the best chance the Progressives had. She was smart, she was liberal, she was Presidential and she straddled the line between being tough and tenacious but, still congenial. I would have voted for her happily but, the Progressives massacred her for reasons I do not know or understand to this day. But at the end of the day, that's an excuse because if Warren was really the one, she would have overcame it and been elected. AOC will never touch the White House. When a real bonafide candidate comes about that's a Progressive, they won't have to be "let in" by the DNC/media/political elite. The people will get behind them and they will vote. Everything else is bullsh*t 
Folks want it both ways.So its the media influencing people to not vote for Progressives now? Got it. So Bob Iger, the Redstone family, the Roberts family, John Stankey and the DNC are determining our elections?
