ROOSEVELT VS TRUMP | FROM OUR GENERATION #6

In this episode of From Our Generation, Crom Carmichael and Mike Hassell explore how the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald Trump represent two radically different approaches to government power. They examine FDR’s sweeping New Deal programs, rising federal expenditures, and central planning—and contrast them with Trump’s deregulatory agenda, executive orders, and promises to shrink the administrative state.
Through historical comparisons, including Al Smith’s 1936 break with Roosevelt and the explosive growth of entitlement programs, Crom and Mike ask whether recent efforts to reverse the federal expansion signal a genuine return to constitutional principles.
Is it a course correction—or a constitutional crisis?

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