You were the one who suggested the Gold Standard: they all "meant well."
I didn't say all. I said the Roosevelts and Hoover - intervening in the great Depression to try to alleviate suffering and jump-start the economy (rescue it from seemingly unending deflation)...or before that to try to prevent bank failures, save some of the natural world from commercial exploitation, and prevent the concentration of power and wealth. That's very different from what Hitler tried to do.
"Meant well" is synonymous with mush-headed in the current conservative lexicon. That's too bad...because it has a legitimate meaning; Very smart and clear thinking people, strongly motivated to do the right thing, can still make terrible mistakes.