[WillPostForFood]

Do you really think WWII America was a less oppressive state? Do you know much harder it was to get porn back then? Or be a trans? Japanese internment? Food ration cards? Office of Censorship? Smith Act? The draft? Curfews and blackouts?

[jonny_eh]

All that stuff was bad, especially Japanese internment, but this feels like a whole different category. It's a full-blown ceding control of the country to one man.

[Ancapistani]

FDR had and exercised far more authority than Trump ever dreamed of.

It was so centralized, we effectively had Eleanor Roosevelt as acting President much of the time.

[bee_rider]

They meant less oppressive in comparison to Nazi Germany.

[panarchy]

I'm glad someone gets it. The level of dumb, missing the point pedantry people do on this site would be impressive if it wasn't so sad.