FDR and the Democrats' Unmatched Undemocratic Ways

The founder of the modern Democrat party would be cynically proud of how undemocratically it swept Kamala Harris to power.

The editorial board of the New York Post asked what happened to the party of "'Lunch Bucket Joe,'" who "Always aimed to identify with the working class - the party's base from the days of FDR and Harry Truman." Democrats were now embracing "Hyper progressive" and elitist Kamala Harris.

FDR, presumably, "Excised the New England elites in favor of the 'New Deal alliance' of Southerners and northern urban immigrant voters." But then Bill Clinton embraced "Global trade treaties like NAFTA and GATT, and China's entry into the WTO, which blew up the broad middle class that FDR's party had spent decades building and turned the Democrats into the party of Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan."

From the beginning, during his one-term stint as a 29-year-old New York State Senator, FDR presented himself as a "Reformer." One of the headline-grabbing issues of the day was the direct primary in the election of United States Senators, to be wrested from the party "Bosses."

As a letter to fellow Hudson River Valley gentleman farmer Henry Morgenthau, Jr. revealed, Roosevelt thought a "Large number" of Upstate farmers displayed "Sheer, utter, and complete ignorance." FDR actually did the bidding of Wall Street, where he worked for several years as a Wall Street lawyer and invested in dubious schemes involving German currency and selling stock in his various companies to gullible Americans who ended up losing most of their investments.

FDR may have rejected J.P. Morgan but only to allow the advancement of rival Chase National Bank, on whose board sat FDR's cousin Vincent Astor.

When conservative Democrats like Senator Walter George, of Georgia, opposed his policies, such as court-packing, FDR publicly, in their presence, ridiculed them during the 1938 midterm "Purge." Today, the purge has been completed, with Democrats voting in lock-step or as a bumper sticker says, "Vote Blue, No Matter Who.".

Contrary to Samuels' view of history, the "Shadow government" was in place during the FDR era. 

https://spectator.org/fdr-and-the-democrats-unmatched-undemocratic-ways/