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Bernie Sanders is not similar to FDR. FDR consistently recognized the importance of the private sector, and, for better or worse, based a lot of the New Deal programs (the NRA, the AAA, the NLRA) around private business.
Here's an article about FDR's attitude toward the roles of government and business. He wanted to align them instead of set them in competition with each other.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
FDR had austerian instincts (which sent the nation into a recession in 1937).

He also opposed public sector unions:

nytimes.com/roomfordebate/…
There are some ways that Sanders is worse than FDR, some ways that he's better, and some ways that he's different but it's not yet clear who's better and who's worse. FDR was transformative, and Bernie would be transformative as well. But in different ways.

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Note that a lot of the ways that FDR differs from Bernie Sanders were actually *mistakes* by FDR. The 1937 austerity, the weird stuff with trying to prop up monopoly profits with the NRA and create artificial shortages with the AAA. Bernie wouldn't have made those mistakes.
So when I say "Bernie isn't like FDR", this is not to dismiss Bernie. The 2020s are not the 1930s. The transformation we needed then was different than the transformation we need now. Maybe Bernie will bring the transformation we need now, maybe he won't. It's just not the same.
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