The GOP’s Bastardization of FDR

Every school child can recite this exhortation from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first inaugural address: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Fewer Americans, however, remember how FDR revisited this theme in his 1941 State of the Union address to Congress:

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression…The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his...