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FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high ground in the next. One of my favorite Roosevelt lines growing up came from Madison Square Garden, October 1936, standing before a crowd that included plenty of people who wanted him dead:Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred. What I love is that he doesn't argue with the hate. He doesn't say they're wrong to hate him, or that the hate is unfair. He says the hate is evidence. The process is working. I've always treated it as a metric: if you're doing something hard and nobody hates it, you probably aren't doing it. If the right people hate it and those people happen to be some of the worst…

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