Ideologies / Liberal / Franklin D. Roosevelt
§ The minds · 1882–1945 · United States · President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal
Saved capitalism by reforming it.
Economic−30
SocialistMarket
Governance+8
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+35
TraditionalProgressive
The president whose New Deal built the modern American regulatory and welfare state, defining mid-century liberalism's faith in active, reforming government.
social
Progressive coalition-builder, though constrained by his era.
economic
Regulated markets, public works and Social Security — a managed mixed economy.
governance
Activist federal government within democratic constitutional limits.
Notable for
- The New Deal
- Social Security Act
- Led the US through the Depression and WWII
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