"It's the jobs, stupid" (quoted in various sources). "Saving Capitalism" did not do anything to actually increase the number of jobs available (though admittedly, it did hold the losses from getting to be far worse), and that is the uncertainty that cost the election. When everything he passed had a time-delay on it such that nobody would feel the effects until long after (the health care? 2014 'til "pre-existing condition" becomes a thing of the past. Senior citizen medical changes? 2020.) it might as well not exist.
When FDR passed something, you knew it passed, as people were moving to make it happen the very next day.
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When FDR passed something, you knew it passed, as people were moving to make it happen the very next day.