The smaller producers of this coalition would also “require protection against cheap imports and access to the raw materials and resources of the Third World, and they are less committed to international stability than to the continued predominance of the United States.” Francis also believed that the old conservative preference for Congress and the courts should be abandoned, and the right should instead pursue what he called a “Caesarist” embrace of executive power: “The New Right will favor a populist-based presidency able to cut through the present oligarchical establishment … whose values
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