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Many are good folks
Many in Congress are good people. Problem is you start with a two party system, so you start close to a 50/50 split on most issues. From there you hope to work left or right depedning on the issue. But the right wing has been so strong for about 20 years that many very good progressives are shell shocked from right back to the Reagan years. Until we rise above those days of despair for the left, we will lose. From what I am seeing, THIS year we are rising above that right wing dogma in state after state. Let's run with it folks! If we don't we may yet lose.
Returning to FDR isn't modern enough. We need some combination of FDR, Reagan (whether we like it or not), and Clinton/Gore. All mushed together that isn't such a bad mix. So let's start from that and see where we can go.