Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1933–1945

FDR's framework — the New Deal (Social Security, Wagner Act collective bargaining, FLSA minimum wage, SEC, Glass-Steagall), the Four Freedoms (1941) including 'freedom from want' as a positive economic right, 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. Cornyn substantially better than Paxton on the alliance-keeping Atlantic-Charter dimension: his pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, pro-AUKUS record is direct FDR-wartime-coalition tradition, and the CHIPS Act is a piece of the kind of industrial policy FDR would have recognized. But on the domestic New-Deal social-insurance core — Social Security expansion, Medicaid expansion, labor protections, public option — Cornyn's record is consistently opposed, and his ACA repeal votes specifically dismantle the framework FDR built. Talarico's platform reads like an FDR-tradition policy document: Medicare buy-in extends the Social Security social-insurance logic, $15 federal minimum wage and PRO Act protections are direct Wagner Act / FLSA lineage, the stock buyback tax and antitrust expansion echo FDR's late-administration anti-monopoly turn. He drops two points because FDR was personally socially conservative in ways Talarico's full LGBTQ and abortion platform is to the left of.