In the presidential campaign of 1932 President Herbert Hoover was fighting a two-front war not only trying to battle the Great Depression, but also defend his record and win reelection against the Democrats and the New Deal candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hoover’s reelection campaign was an uphill battle against the Depression and the charismatic Franklin D. Roosevelt, but his campaign was more than just a defense of his economic policies. Hoover’s campaign was also a defense of what he considered to be constitutional government versus the regimentation and socialism of the New Deal. Hoover was similar to John the Baptist as a voice of one calling in the wilderness for the American people to repent and turn away from New Deal progressivism.
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