I rank FDR as the third BEST president, for getting the US through the depression without a revolution...I really don't understand this proposition. You're saying that had FDR not adopted his New Deal reforms the country would have gone into revolution? What's the evidence?
By my studies, the empowerment of the radical elements followed and did not precede the New Deal. Furthermore, FDR was elected on a conservative plank. Where was the revolution in '32?
I can't prove there would have been a revolution, just that it was a risk. And Huey Long was waiting in the wings. Roosevelt was very worried about Huey.