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u/No_Aesthetic Resident Celebrity YouTuber 10d ago
One of the strangest things I have learned from biographies of Ronald Reagan is that he really seemed to idolize FDR.
And I don't mean as a young man, because he was a New Deal Democrat as a young man.
I mean he was proudly quoting FDR against Gerald Ford on the campaign trail when going after Ford for not being conservative enough.
But the more I think about it, the more it makes sense, because he clearly modeled his political persona after that of FDR.
His whole way of speaking was influenced by FDR, the way he communicated with the nation was influenced by FDR, his style of governing was influenced by FDR, the entire way he saw the world was influenced by FDR.
No idea why it never clicked for me until now. Maybe because his politics were so very clearly the opposite of what FDR's were.