"Like what?"
The Right is amusingly bipolar on the subject of FDR. On the one hand, they, like Tim will argue that fascism is the total anti-thesis of big business. On the other hand, many of them believe "FDR had fascist policies" because he was too close to big businesses.
Criticism of Roosevelt as a "Fascist"
After 1945 the term "Fascist" conjured up horrible images of death camps. However in the 1930s it had a very different connotation, meaning domination of the government by big business. While most American businessmen thought FDR was hostile to them, some critics said he was too friendly.
Former President Herbert Hoover, who developed the fascist theme, said that the NRA was too closely linked to the "fascism" that big business industrialists wanted to impose:
“ Among the early Roosevelt fascist measures was the National Industry Recovery Act (NRA) of June 16, 1933 .... [these ideas] were first suggested by Gerard Swope (of the General Electric company)... They were adopted by the United States Chamber of Commerce. During the campaign of 1932, Henry I. Harriman, president of that body, urged that I agree to support these proposals, informing me that Mr. Roosevelt had agreed to do so. I tried to show him that this stuff was sheer fascism; that it was a remaking of Mussolini's "corporate state" and refused to agree to any of it. He informed me that in view of my attitude, the business world would support Roosevelt with money and influence. That for the most part proved true.”
Hoover Memoirs 3:420 [Whatever Hariman told Hoover, Roosevelt had not signed off on Swope's plan]
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