Wishful comparisons of President Biden to Franklin Delano Roosevelt have been coming fast and furious.
In a New York Times essay, the liberal author Jonathan Alter dubbed Biden âFDRâs heirâ and declared that by signing the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package, the president âhas made a good startâ at duplicating what âRoosevelt did amid the Depression.â In another column, the Timesâs Jamelle Bouie hailed the stimulus bill as âFDR-sizedâ and said it âcompares favorablyâ with anything FDR signed in his first 100 days. âBiden is off to an excellent start â arguably, one of the best since Roosevelt,â kvelled David Gergen, a former adviser to four presidents. Time magazine announced even before the election that Biden was âpositioning himself as a modern FDRâ and agreed that Roosevelt could be âBidenâs closest presidential parallel.â