The man who would still be president, had he not died in office in his 4th term.
[Washington Examiner] When British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn unveiled his country’s most expensive and radical political manifesto, with plans for a huge program of taxation and spending, he did it by invoking the spirit of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In so doing, he joins a raft of left-wing politicians in the United States who have made the architect of the New Deal and his ideas the keystone of their 2020 presidential ambitions.
From the Green New Deal to rural internet access and appeals to the working class, politicians including Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have promised to finish the work that FDR began in the 1930s with government jobs, Wall Street regulation, and infrastructure.
Lawrence Glickman, professor of American studies in the department of history at Cornell University, said Democrats had long shunned the legacy of FDR as they reacted to criticism they supported big government and high taxation. That started to change after the Great Recession of 2008.
Democrats "long shunned FDR"...?
"There’s a renewed faith in regulating corporations that are widely seen as becoming dangerously powerful, a faith in public spending, which for a long time Democrats as well as Republicans were reluctant to support, and a new faith in unions," he said.
FDR was namechecked across the Atlantic when Corbyn unveiled on Thursday a radical plan to hike taxation and borrowing to fund a massive program of public spending, coupled with the nationalization of the railways, water companies, and energy providers.
He compared himself with Roosevelt as he tried to head off criticism that his proposals would cripple the British economy and return the country to disastrous 1970s experiments in socialism.
"The U.S. president who led his country out of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt, had to take on the rich and powerful in America to do it. That’s why he said: ’They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred,’" he said, quoting the president’s famous speech at Madison Square Garden during the 1936 U.S. election. 
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