Reply #7: The answer is that FDR communicated his postions, actions [View All]

as well as his reasoning directly to the American people. He said what he meant and he meant what he said. He did not spend much time telling the people that the Republicans and Banksters were our partners in bipartisan meetings in the middle, he advocated for the people. He had the trust of the American people, a force stronger than the current batch imagines it to be. They think they and their wonks have such power that the people's trust is irrelevant.
That's the whole of it. He did not call the opposition his honest broker pals. He did not spin and mince words, he did not purse his lips and lecture, he spoke his mind and he showed his heart, he had the courage to lead. The confidence and the ability to carry through on his words. He was not the man who had said 'no mandates because they are stupid' then 'we have to have mandates or you will cheat'. He was not the man who said 'any bill I sign must contain a strong public option' then claim he'd never said it. He was not the man who said the DOJ and other agencies would not go after medical marijuana, because they have better things to do like catching terrorists only to do just the opposite, apparently the DOJ and other agencies have captured all the terrorists, now they have time to go after chemo patient's meds.
FDR was an honest man, not a construct made of whatever verbiage is suitable for the occasion, true or not.