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'''Paleoconservatism''' is derived from the "Old Right" movement from the 1910s-1950s, who were a group of [[File:Conserv.png]] [[Conservatism|Conservatives]], mainly [[File:RepubUS.png]] [[Conservatism|Republicans]] but also some conservative [[File:Demcr.png]] [[Big Tent Liberalism|Democrats]] from the south, unified by their opposition to [[File:FDRism-alt.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] and the New Deal. They typically favored [[File:Lfree.png]] Laissez-Faire economics and shared ideals such as a defense of [[File:Darwinist.png]] [[Social Darwinism|"Natural Inequalities"]], [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|Authority]], [[File:Trad.png]] [[Traditionalism]], [[File:Religious.png]] Morality, [[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism|Rule of Law]], [[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism]], [[File:Anticommunism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Communism}}, [[File:Anti-Masonry.png]] Anti-Masonry, [[File:Antizion.png]] Anti-Zionism, and [[File:Antiimp.png]] [[Isolationism|Anti-Imperialism]], as well as skepticism of the growing power of [[File:Unitary.png]] [[Centralism|Washington]]. They came into being when the [[File:RepubUS.png]] Republican Party split in 1910 and were influential within that party into the 1940s. They pushed [[File:NatProg.png]] [[Bull Moose Progressivism|Theodore Roosevelt]] and his [[File:Prog-u.png]] [[Progressivism|progressive]] followers out in 1912. From 1933, many [[File:Demcr.png]] Democrats became associated with the Old Right through their opposition to [[File:FDRismF.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and his New Deal Coalition, and with the Republicans formed the Conservative Coalition to block its further progress. Conservatives disagreed on foreign policy, and the Old Right favored [[File:Isolationist.png]] [[Isolationism|non-interventionist]] policies on [[File:Cball-EU.png]] Europe at the start of World War II. After the war, they opposed President [[File:Libhawk.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Harry Truman]]'s domestic and foreign policies. The last major battle was led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, who was defeated by [[File:Ike.png]] [[Rockefeller Republicanism|Dwight D Eisenhower]] for the presidential nomination in 1952. The new conservative movement later led by [[File:Buckley.png]] [[Neo-Libertarianism|William F. Buckley, Jr.]], [[File:Goldwaterian.png]] [[Neo-Libertarianism|Barry Goldwater]] and [[File:Reagan.png]] [[Neoconservatism|Ronald Reagan]] adopted much of the domestic anti-New Deal conservatism of the Old Right but broke with it by demanding [[File:Globcap.png]] free trade and an [[File:Necon.png]] aggressive anti-communist foreign policy.