The New Deal

Use the quotation from a "fireside chat" delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 and your knowledge of challenges to New Deal programs to answer the question.

A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it "Fascism", sometimes "Communism", sometimes "Regimentation", sometimes "Socialism". But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical.

— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat," June 28, 1934

In the quotation, Roosevelt is discussing criticism of the New Deal. Why did critics of the programs equate them with these terms?