Anti-New Deal

A political and ideological stance opposing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs and the broader expansion of US regulatory and welfare state policies. The term often refers to the coalition of businessmen, conservatives, and libertarian-leaning thinkers who opposed New Deal-era regulation and whose activism helped shape postwar economic conservatism and early neoliberalism.

Claims that use this term

• Anti-New Deal business propaganda and Cold War totalitarianism fears jointly reshaped US regulatory policy
• Anti-New Deal businessmen funded and networked early neoliberalism, contradicting the marginality myth