Time after time, FDR headed in new and sometimes old directions, following no policy but bold and persistent experimentation. Franklin Roosevelt didn't succeed in ending the Depression so much as in outlasting it. And he did it in no small part by keeping the country hopeful, or at least interested. There's no telling what Boris the Mad will do next, either. He keeps the world guessing, even mystified, and therefore involved.
Perplexity beats despair any time.
FDR was a lot better at pulling aces out of his sleeve, or maybe just jokers, than Boris Yeltsin is. But this Russian joker knows that consistency is the hobgoblin of small, unimaginative minds. Sometimes going backward is the only way to go forward, or at least survive till one can. So now this Russian president and perplexity has reinstated an old workhorse who's done nothing but plod. Yet at least under Viktor Chernomyrdin's non-leadersip, some reforms were made despite his opposition, while his replacement gave all reforms a bad name.