But that's beside the point. Modern progressivism wants to take us far beyond the New Deal. Your models are in Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union. and Mao's China. They all tried to achieve "social justice" by brutally repressing human freedom. Based on the PC extremism on our university campuses, those totalitarian impulses are very much alive in this country today.
Link: https://prospect.org/article/way-we-won-americas-economic-breakthrough-during-world-war-ii