Jeff Roche

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define the identity of what it meant to be a West Texan.

And it catapults him.

This essay, this is the Saturday New Post in the 30s, it's the most read magazine in America.

And it catapults him into the stratosphere of sort of anti-Rosevelt, anti-New Deal thinkers.

And from there, it's just by night, we're going to talk about 1936, from there for the next literal 30 years, he is going to be at the forefront of

of the right-wing movement in Texas, especially in the western half of the state where he lived.

Absolutely.

For someone like Haley, the idea of free enterprise and free markets, that's just natural law to someone like him.

For someone like Haley, that concept is God-given.

And the New Deal disrupts everything he thinks he understands.

So for someone like Haley, if a rancher goes out of business, they go out of business.

They weren't meant to be in business.

And if you can't make it out on the West Texas prairies, then you don't make it.

And to prop up folks who were incapable of doing what it took to profit

That's the way the market's supposed to work.

So yeah, the New Deal just represented an aberration.

The other thing we have to understand about Haley is he fears what a powerful federal government might do to segregation.

Haley is also an arch-segregationist.

And a firm believer in constructing society around the idea of white supremacy.

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