Molly Jong-Fast mocks Trump about comparing himself to FDR. The question is, Who shredded the Constitution?

Special correspondent at Vanity Fair, Molly Jong-Fast was on MSNBC's Way Too Early last Monday (starting around the 33:00 mark) and while chatting with host, Jonathan Lemire she said concerning a recent Trump speech at the NRA:

"...I'm your gun President, I do these things these things that are considered very based. I think at the fact that he keeps toying at this idea that he's going to stay for a third term, he's telling us what he's going to do if he gets in office and he's going to shred the Constitution, that's clearly what's happening here.

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"I do love how he compared himself to FDR, that is a bit of a stretch."

This is what I want to discuss...what makes Jong-Fast such a useless guest is she knows very little and brings little to the table. Shred the Constitution she said.

FDR is a sacred cow for both most Republicans and leftists like Jong-Fast. He is typically ranked in the top 3 presidents of all time. But let's look at what FDR did during his 4 terms concerning shredding the Constitution and the expansion of the federal government:

FDR exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, while in the process enlarging government bureaucracy and creating welfare programs that haunt us 80 years later.

During the New Deal in the 1930s, federal intervention in the marketplace expanded to include heavy government involvement in retirement and unemployment payments, labor-management relations, wages, hours and working conditions, securities and investments and regulation of radio broadcasting, agriculture, trucking, airlines, oil and coal.

The National Industrial Recovery Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act were only the beginning. The New Deal was a series of expensive experiments that wasted billions of dollars at a time when we didn't have much money to spare.

Then there was the SEC, CCC, WPA, PWA and CWA and more redundant, and I say unconstitutional agencies cropped up. Over his tenure, FDR created 65 new federal agencies to provide public works, subsidies for banks, loans for homes, farm credit and more.

The list is very extensive.

Federal employment increased by a factor of five.

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He tried unsuccessfully to pack the Supreme Court so he could get even more government intervention passed.

He expanded presidential power to something not seen before.

He had no real interest in civil rights.

One of the most vile things was he issued an executive order that threw 70,000 Japanese Americans and thousands of resident aliens into prison camps.

There was censorship and full out banning of radio programs and newspapers.

His economic policies extended the Great Depression by at least 8 years according to researchers.

On April 5, 1933, FDR told Americans—in the form of Executive Order 6102—that they had less than a month to hand over their gold coins, bullion and gold certificates or face up to ten years in prison or a fine of $10,000, or both.

He maintained a sneaky and aggressive foreign policy prior to WWII. At a time when 70% of Americans wanted military restraint overseas. He made many moves prior to the war to get us involved.

There is so much detail, too much for a blog post to cover everything FDR did that honest men and woman would consider "shredding the Constitution".

For Jong-Fast to say Trump comparing himself to FDR was a bit of a stretch is so true.

Trump didn't even come close to the damage FDR caused to the executive, the economy and the meaning of the Constitution.