This 80 year history of the now winning radical right New Deal Haters is helpful for understanding how we got here today.
It helps explain SO MUCH. Like why the Midwest GOP hated Ike and considered him a communist.
80 Years of Planning: The Kochs + John Birch Society + The Family + Libertarians = GOP Today
The theocratic underpinning of the so-called, world-wide AUSTERITY MOVEMENT, began in 1930 in response to the New Deal.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/2/14/944611/-
1930's: Abraham Veriede, the founder of "The Prayer Breakfast organization now known as The Family" began to organize an anti-Union battle in the Northwest. He taught a new religion to America's CEOs, politicians, and the wealthy."
Veriede organized leading tycoons to create Prayer Groups where they plotted and planned the demise of the New Deal and sponsored young people to become politicians. Today there are "prayer groups" in every State Legislature.
ABOUT IKE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower
In domestic affairs, Eisenhower attempted to avoid partisanship whenever possible. When Democrats regained control in the 1954 Senate and House elections, limiting his freedom of action on domestic policy, his largely nonpartisan stance enabled him to work smoothly with the Democratic leaders Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson in the Senate. Biographer Jean Edward Smith describes the relationship between the three:
Ike, LBJ, and "Mr. Sam" did not trust one another completely and they did not see eye to eye on every issue, but they understood one another and had no difficulty working together. Eisenhower continued to meet regularly with the Republican leadership. But his weekly sessions with Rayburn and Johnson, usually in the evening, over drinks, were far more productive. For Johnson and Rayburn, it was shrewd politics to cooperate with Ike. Eisenhower was wildly popular in the country....By supporting a Republican president against the Old Guard of his own party, the Democrats hoped to share Ike's popularity.[96]
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