Old Right
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Old Right may refer to:
- Old Right (United Kingdom), the ideology and policies of the Conservative Party that predated the ideological shift led by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
- Old Right (United States)Old Right (United States)The Old Right was a conservative faction in the United States that opposed both New Deal domestic programs and U.S. entry into World War II. Many members of this faction were associated with the Republicans of the interwar years led by Robert Taft, but some were Democrats...
, a group of conservatives and libertarians in the 1930s–1960s who supported a non-interventionist foreign policy and limited government. They were united in opposition to the New DealNew DealThe New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call...
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