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Was FDR's the new deal really that huge at the time? Or is it just the way history remembers it? Did people just hop on board and help? Or was it overblown by historians? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

FDR's New Deal was massive because it was an expansion of the peacetime intervention of the Federal government in the national economy. Even progressive-leaning presidents prior to FDR often had a strict view of Federalism which precluded this approach. FDR's New Deal was a significant contributor to his lasting popularity and the weakness of the Republican Party, and especially the lassiez-faire wing of the Republican Party, for the next 30 years.