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- A Republican president presides over a historic economic collapse, allowing his Democratic opponent to win the White House in a walk. Once inaugurated, the new president signs into law a mix of emergency legislation intended to goose the economy and long-term reforms to benefit the least fortunate. The new president is soon besieged by a strident opposition, backed by some of the wealthiest people in the nation, who insist that our Constitution is being sacrificed on the altar of socialism. Before long, the president's signature accomplishments are threatened by conservatives on the Supreme Court.
I'm speaking, of course, about the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.