Darden knew precisely what Buchanan meant by “collectivist” solutions to social problems. His father-in-law was Irénée du Pont, the former president of the DuPont Company and one of the nation’s wealthiest men. He was also among the most right-wing of the rich. Du Pont so hated FDR that he had helped found the American Liberty League, in hopes of restoring an “employers’ paradise” by nipping the New Deal in the bud.
