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Critics feared at times that the New Deal was the authoritarian mechanism whereby the American voters traded their freedom for economic security. The presidential election of 1936 did nothing to diminish their fears. The Liberty Leaguers backed the Republican candidate, Gov. Alfred Landon of Kansas, in part because he expressed their sentiments to the American people. The Liberty League sent the public more than five million pamphlets and leaflets explaining their position. The public sent Landon and the Liberty League packing, in the worst political defeat in modern American history. Only after the New Deal stumbled in 1937 and Southern Democrats, concerned with Roosevelt's support for black civil rights, made common cause with Republicans would there be a political rehabilitation for conservatives. Even then, the public — and the business community — never embraced economic orthodoxy. By 1938 many Liberty Leaguers and partisans of economic orthodoxy, who were...
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