Hitler seems to have failed in all of his goals except for harming Jews and Slavs, and to have had far from total success in those two goals.
The US still exists, while the Third Reich is long gone.
Franklin seems to have succeeded at being rich, amusing himself, having lots of children who retained a high level of socio-economic status and probably lots of unknown children. Living two or three times the contemporary life expectancy and having what most people would see as an extremely successful family life, scientific career, business life, literary career, non-family Romantic life, and a maximally successful political career seems to me to meet a best guess for the content of “winning” regardless of what his goals may have been.
I agree that Franklin fulfilled his goals much, much better than Hitler. But it’s not clear to me that one of them had a bigger impact on the world than the other. It’s just that Hitler’s impact wasn’t aligned with his intentions.
I probably should have read “success” rather than (raw) “impact”.
Hitler seems to have failed in all of his goals except for harming Jews and Slavs, and to have had far from total success in those two goals.
The US still exists, while the Third Reich is long gone.
Franklin seems to have succeeded at being rich, amusing himself, having lots of children who retained a high level of socio-economic status and probably lots of unknown children. Living two or three times the contemporary life expectancy and having what most people would see as an extremely successful family life, scientific career, business life, literary career, non-family Romantic life, and a maximally successful political career seems to me to meet a best guess for the content of “winning” regardless of what his goals may have been.
I agree that Franklin fulfilled his goals much, much better than Hitler. But it’s not clear to me that one of them had a bigger impact on the world than the other. It’s just that Hitler’s impact wasn’t aligned with his intentions.
I probably should have read “success” rather than (raw) “impact”.