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1936 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Concentrated economic power vs. the average citizen (rhetorical framing)
'I welcome their hatred': a second term in which organized money meets its master
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Solution
A posture, not a program: the forces of 'business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking' will be mastered in the second administration.
Rationale
'Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.'
Statements (2)
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.
Follow-through
brokencontested among sources
The second term's fights with 'organized money' and its allies were mostly lost: the court bill (1937), the reorganization bill (1938), the attempted purge of conservative Democrats (1938) and the midterm losses produced the conservative coalition that dominated Congress from 1939.
Mechanisms
| Date | Type | Name | Effect | Consistent? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-07-22 | other | Conservative coalition forms | Republicans and southern Democrats block further New Deal legislation.The conservative coalition , founded in 1937, was an unofficial alliance of members of the United States Congress which brought together the conservative wings of the Republican and Democratic parties to oppose President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 's New Deal . | no | Conservative coalition - Wikipedia |
| 1938-06-24 | message | Fireside chat announcing intervention in Democratic primaries | The 'purge' of conservative Democrats; nearly all targets won. | no | Fireside Chat. |
Obstruction
congressparty Conservative Democrats joined Republicans after 1937. source
Assessments
The forces met a coalition, not a master.
Roosevelt's own accounting counted the Court fight a substantive victory.
Reception (2)
Roosevelt would read re-election as a mandate to carry on the New Deal; his 'I welcome their hatred' spirit meant new moves would face microscopic examination.
Obviously, the President looks forward to his re-election as mandate to carry on the New Deal.
Roosevelt owed his victory to a 'Popular Front' led by radicals and would turn further left; 'millions who voted for Mr. Roosevelt are due for a sharp awakening.'
It is to men of the stripe of Du binsky, Antoninl, Ia Guardia, Norris and Lundeen, if not at once to Brow der, that Mr. Roosevelt will turn for counsel.
Other positions on this issue
- Take power from the 'economic royalists': the mandate of 1932 is to end economic tyranny — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 vague_gesture
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