Under the guise of fighting monopoly, FDR created vast new monopolies:

FDR's new cartels (which ossified commerce in the middle of a depression) were explicitly modeled after Mussolini:

A curiosity of American politics is that we discuss various ultra-Leftist economic policies as if they've never been tried

But they have been tried: in Puerto Rico, which has labor and energy policies that make California look like Texas. And PR is essentially a failed economy.

I figured Tugwell for a Keynesian. I had no idea he was essentially a Marxist:

I wouldn't have believed that FDR tried to reduce hunger by destroying crops, except that it's 2020 and I just watched my government push hospitals into bankruptcy to fight a pandemic

The Cancel Wing of the modern Progressive movement is awfully silent on the original Progressive movement's love of eugenics