First New Deal not ruled un constitutional

Many aspects of the first new deal were ruled unconstitutional. My what if is this. Say none of the first new deal was ruled un constitutional. What would America be like today? How would the USA be changed from 1935 to today? Who would be the leaders? How would the GOP and the Democratic party adjust? I am not curious on how it stayed constitutional. Or how you would get the judges to change their minds. But what the consquences of it staying legal would be. . I do realize that when the new judges came in that eventually many things did change. But would like to see a discussion on what America would look like
 
You'd have to change SCOTUS' composition. They were all appointed by Republicans and made Bork look like a pinko in comparison.
 
The key would be to replace at least two of the 'Four Horsemen' - the four most conservative members of the Court.

Not every GOP appointee was a conservative - Harlan Stone, a Coolidge appointee, and Benjamin Cardozo, a Hoover appointee, were two of the liberal 'Three Musketeers.'

Two of the 'Four Horsemen' were appointed in Harding's term - George Sutherland, a former senator from Utah picked in part to ensure that the West was represented on the Court, and Pierce Butler, a controversial figure among progressives and labor leaders who nonetheless sailed through the conservative Senate of 1922.

Wikipedia has surprisingly useful pages on the Supreme Court nominees of the presidents from Harding on (with the exception of Coolidge picking Harlan Stone, his Attorney General, for the Court), also listing other names mentioned in the media at the time.
 
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No I am saying forget that the Supreme court was that right wing. I want to know what people think America would be like if the first New Deal had NOT been ruled un constitutional. What type of a country would the US be between 1935 and now? Who would be the leaders How would the political parties adjust, etc? Sorry if I did not make myself clear.
 
If it was then FDR would be prepared to go much further than he did IOTL, but the public backlash would still be fierce. The foremost critics of FDR's domestic agenda, including Court-packing and after the CC regained control post-1938, were SoDems and the Bourbon remnants, not Republicans.
 
If it was then FDR would be prepared to go much further than he did IOTL, but the public backlash would still be fierce. The foremost critics of FDR's domestic agenda, including Court-packing and after the CC regained control post-1938, were SoDems and the Bourbon remnants, not Republicans.

To be fair, there weren't that many Republicans.
 
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