You know, I think it's really important to analyze what figures like this represent as much as it is who they actually are. For instance, FDR did a lot of horrible things, but I really think he's a great symbol for the importance of welfare and solving multiple problems in society at once
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To some degree this is true. But making it a moral judgment isn't terribly useful in the absence of the ability to magically revolution our way to just world in one go.