Ideologies / Paleo-Conservative / Robert A. Taft
§ The minds · 1889–1953 · United States · Senator
Robert A. Taft
Mr. Republican
Free markets, small government, non-intervention.
Economic+72
SocialistMarket
Governance+42
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social−55
TraditionalProgressive
The senator who embodied the 'Old Right' — free-market, constitutionalist and non-interventionist — a touchstone for paleoconservatives against both the New Deal and later interventionism.
social
Traditional Midwestern conservative.
economic
Free enterprise and opposition to the New Deal state.
governance
Constitutional conservatism; wary of foreign entanglement.
Notable for
- Leader of the 'Old Right'
- Taft–Hartley Act
- Non-interventionist foreign policy
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