Reply #44: only the aspect of the New Deal

[wyldwolf]

...otherwise, FDR's Democrats were militaristic and nationalistic. FDR conspired to keep the progressive movement at bay, and he imprisoned a whole race of people.

It was also FDR's intent to dismantle much of the New Deal after the depression. In fact, in one of his SOTU speeches, he said this business of relief must end.

FDR had several chances to push universal healthcare and he declined to do so each time. He refused to include it in the the Social Security Bill of 1935 because he felt it would endanger the bill's chance of passing. The concept was also included in the Wagner National Health Act of 1939 but it never received FDR’s full support.

Truman suggested national health insurance as many have but, as is usually the case, never put a working plan on the table. Truman, in fact, abhorred in socialist-leaning tendencies in the US Government but was committed to universal healthcare. The Dems dropped the ball on it and when the GOP took over congress in 1946, the idea fizzled.

But healthcare can't be the sole issue that one bases the OP's premise on. Truman, like FDR before him and Dems afterward, were social conservatives and military hawks.