Reply To: Biden condemns racism and nativism in the same sentence

“Any basic understanding of American politics at the outset of WW2 includes the fact that FDR and the Democrats had total power and were able to do what they wanted.”

That is another false statement. Until 1937, the conservative dominated Supreme Court overturned one action after another by FDR and Congress. And while FDR mostly got his way with Congress during his first term on domestic policy, that was not the case in his second or third term as Democrats started revolting in 1937. While the Republican Party was almost entirely nativist and isolationist (in particular both Hoover and Landon), there were a lot of nativists and isolationists in the Democratic Party as well. Charles Lindbergh, probably a Nazi himself, was a national hero and opposed FDR at every step.