Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1933–1945

FDR's framework — the New Deal social-insurance state, the Four Freedoms (including 'freedom from want'), and the Atlantic Charter alliance-building — is the most expansive defense of activist federal government in American presidential history, paired with rhetoric treating economic oligarchy as a threat to democracy. Both candidates are too conservative on the social-insurance core for FDR's framework, but Cornyn earns substantial FDR credit on the alliance-keeping Atlantic-Charter dimension: his pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, pro-AUKUS record is direct FDR-wartime-coalition tradition. Paxton's MAGA tariff-and-isolationism posture with Ukraine-aid skepticism cuts against the Lend-Lease and Atlantic Charter internationalism FDR built American foreign policy around. Both lose on the New-Deal-domestic side; Cornyn is the closer alliance-tradition fit.