Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Old Right is a branch of American conservatism that started in a Republican Party (GOP) split in 1910 and was influential inside the party into the 1940s. They pushed Theodore Roosevelt and his liberal followers out in 1912. The movement was swept away in the election of 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition. They vigorously opposed the New Deal and by 1938 had joined a Conservative Coalition that blocked its further progress. Conservatives disagreed on foreign policy and the Old Right then asked interventionist policies regarding Europe at the start of World War II. After the war, they opposed Harry Truman's domestic and foreign policies. The last major battle was led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, who was defeated by Dwight D Eisenhower for the presidential nomination in 1952. The new conservative movement led by William F. Buckley, Jr., Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan adopted the domestic Anti-New Deal conservatism of the Old Right, but broke with it by demanding an aggressive anti-communist foreign policy.The Old Right was always an informal designation, and never referred to an organized movement. Most members were Republicans, although there was a conservative Democratic element based largely in the South. They were called the \"Old Right\" to distinguish them from their New Right successors, such as Barry Goldwater, who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s and favored an interventionist foreign policy to battle international communism. The Old Right typically favored laissez-faire classical liberalism; some were business-oriented conservatives; others were ex-radicals who moved sharply to the right, like the novelist John Dos Passos; still others, like the Southern Agrarians, were traditionalists who dreamed of restoring a premodern communal society. The Old Right's devotion to anti-imperialism were at odds with the interventionist goal of global democracy, the top-down transformation of local heritage, social and institutional engineering of the political Left and even some from the modern Right-wing. The \"Old Right\" was unified by their opposition to what they saw as the danger of domestic dictatorship by President Franklin Roosevelt. Most were unified by their defense of natural inequalities, tradition, limited government, and anti-imperialism, as well as their skepticism of democracy and the growing power of Washington.The Old Right per se has faded as an organized movement, but many similar ideas are found amongst paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians."@en }
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- Old_Right_(United_States) abstract "The Old Right is a branch of American conservatism that started in a Republican Party (GOP) split in 1910 and was influential inside the party into the 1940s. They pushed Theodore Roosevelt and his liberal followers out in 1912. The movement was swept away in the election of 1932 by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal Coalition. They vigorously opposed the New Deal and by 1938 had joined a Conservative Coalition that blocked its further progress. Conservatives disagreed on foreign policy and the Old Right then asked interventionist policies regarding Europe at the start of World War II. After the war, they opposed Harry Truman's domestic and foreign policies. The last major battle was led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, who was defeated by Dwight D Eisenhower for the presidential nomination in 1952. The new conservative movement led by William F. Buckley, Jr., Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan adopted the domestic Anti-New Deal conservatism of the Old Right, but broke with it by demanding an aggressive anti-communist foreign policy.The Old Right was always an informal designation, and never referred to an organized movement. Most members were Republicans, although there was a conservative Democratic element based largely in the South. They were called the \"Old Right\" to distinguish them from their New Right successors, such as Barry Goldwater, who came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s and favored an interventionist foreign policy to battle international communism. The Old Right typically favored laissez-faire classical liberalism; some were business-oriented conservatives; others were ex-radicals who moved sharply to the right, like the novelist John Dos Passos; still others, like the Southern Agrarians, were traditionalists who dreamed of restoring a premodern communal society. The Old Right's devotion to anti-imperialism were at odds with the interventionist goal of global democracy, the top-down transformation of local heritage, social and institutional engineering of the political Left and even some from the modern Right-wing. The \"Old Right\" was unified by their opposition to what they saw as the danger of domestic dictatorship by President Franklin Roosevelt. Most were unified by their defense of natural inequalities, tradition, limited government, and anti-imperialism, as well as their skepticism of democracy and the growing power of Washington.The Old Right per se has faded as an organized movement, but many similar ideas are found amongst paleoconservatives and paleolibertarians.".