Word: anticonsensus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticonsensus minority in the Republican party, however, was able to play a more effective national role. Although Republican candidates for President, recognizing the general popular support for New Deal measures, vigorously denied any intent to turn back the clock, the old guard was strong enough heavily to color the positions and pronouncements of their party. As a result, the presence of a general agreement on the essentials of public policy in the prewar years was not apparent in the official party positions. On the contrary, in the late 1930's and the early 1940's, just before our entry into...
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