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→What do you think of this?: isolationism and protectionsim
:Under his imposing exterior he was just a common small-town man, an "average sensual man," the sort of man who likes nothing better in the world than to be with the old bunch when they gather at Joe's place for an all-Saturday-night session, with waistcoats unbuttoned and cigars between their teeth and an ample supply of bottles at hand.... Even making allowance for the refraction of Harding's personality through that of Nan Britton, [in her book] one sees with deadly clarify the essential ordinariness of the man, the commonness of his "Gee, dearie" and "Say, you darling," his being swindled out of a hundred dollars by card sharpers on a train ride... after he had reached the White House, the rowdies of the Ohio gang were fundamentally his sort.<ref name=taylor>Taylor, Frederick Lewis (1931), ''Only Yesterday,'' ch. VI, "Harding and the Scandals"</ref>
:Under his imposing exterior he was just a common small-town man, an "average sensual man," the sort of man who likes nothing better in the world than to be with the old bunch when they gather at Joe's place for an all-Saturday-night session, with waistcoats unbuttoned and cigars between their teeth and an ample supply of bottles at hand.... Even making allowance for the refraction of Harding's personality through that of Nan Britton, [in her book] one sees with deadly clarify the essential ordinariness of the man, the commonness of his "Gee, dearie" and "Say, you darling," his being swindled out of a hundred dollars by card sharpers on a train ride... after he had reached the White House, the rowdies of the Ohio gang were fundamentally his sort.<ref name=taylor>Taylor, Frederick Lewis (1931), ''Only Yesterday,'' ch. VI, "Harding and the Scandals"</ref>
::What needs to be noted is the conservativism of Harding's day consisted of these two things: [[isolationism]] and [[protectionsim]]. This is what got him elected, and this is what he stood for. Today, both these concepts have been entirely rejected by closed minded stuffed-shirt conservatives who are unwilling to change. The Republican Party has repudiated these ideas. Now, isolationism and protectionsim still exist in America, a few Republicans & consservatives like Buchanan, or Ross Perot, or Socialists like [[Richard Gebphardt]] embrace protectionism; isolationism is the dominant view among the so-called "liberal left" anti-war movement. But the dominant "conservative" attitudes of Harding's era bare scant resemblance to the dominant conservative views of today.
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