ABSTRACT
Nineteen thirty-two saw the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the rise of a new, more urban, more liberal Democratic Party. For the Old Right, Roosevelt, as much as Lincoln, stands as the president most responsible for centralizing power and destroying the foundations of the old Republic. Still, nothing prevented the group from focusing on its main goal: Stopping the Roosevelt administration's drive for consolidation of all power in the Federal city. Fearless opponents of political correctness, conservatives supported the monument, but thought the smoker it honored should be portrayed as such. The case against Roosevelt is a long one, and it still reverberates among the precincts of the Old Right. Here was the first war in history to see massive killings of civilian populations. Once masters of the sea, it was now both a second-rate military and economic player on the world scene. America won the war, but it was losing its civilization.
