The Democratic political juggernaut that emerged from the…

In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away from Western…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not simply to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation and taxes,…

— Heather Cox Richardson

FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the government should…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying…

— H. L. Mencken

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of…

— H. G. Wells

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

— Charles Krauthammer

All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government for 20…

— David Oshinsky

You can't go do the Green New Deal. It's a set of aspirations that don't really bring us to sensible action.

— Matt Gaetz

“This was a key condition the racists put before FDR. They said they would not support FDR’s New Deal programs unless FDR supported their…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesn't mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our…

— Curtis White

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

— Adam McKay