This year, April 12 happens to be Easter Sunday, but for us devoted Democrats it will always be a date that lives in infamy — when President Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly died in Warm Springs, Georgia.
He was only 63. But then, he had some unhealthy habits. And there was that Great Depression and world war to guide America through. Suffice to say that at the time of his death, he looked a lot more careworn than in this handsome portrait.
Reflecting on FDR makes us wonder about the current occupant of the White House, and how much the character of the person who sits in the Oval Office matters. Check out this piece in today's New York Times for a clearer picture if you have a few minutes. See, when you have a sociopath and narcissist in FDR's chair, disasters like global pandemics end up killing many more Americans than they need to.
What if Roosevelt had been like Benedict Donald, and refused to use the powers of his office to help the nation sinking into depression back in 1933? What if, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, FDR had decided that the states and not the nation should wage World War II? What if, instead of asking all citizens to heed the call of national unity, Roosevelt had pitted Americans against each other — and threatened reporters and profiteered off the war to boot?
Thankfully, history is what it is, and FDR is rightly recognized as the greatest President of the 20th century. Now, in the 21st, it appears that Americans may truly understand what kind of loser we have at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That must be why, when we clicked on the "Happy Easter, Mr. President" trend on Twitter, we saw that it wasn't about Benedict Donald — but Barack Obama. We cats PURR.
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