How did liberalism as inspired by Franklin Roosevelt continue into the 1950s-1970s?
1 Answer
It was continued through the policies of the Great Society and the Last Frontier
Explanation:
Johnson's Great Society from 1963 to 1968 and Kennedy's Last Frontier from 1961 to 1963 were the perpetuation of FDR's New Deal. Indeed they introduced more managing of the economy by the federal government. Its intervention was increased and it was mostly inspired by Keynesian ideas, people such as Galbraith embodied that spirit(he was Kennedy's advisor).
Kennedy introduced the food stamps and Johnson intoduced the systems of Medicare and Medicaid thus going further than FDR. FDR had introduced Social Security in 1935 and had created a tremendous amount of federal agencies such as the NRA and the AAA which aimed at regulating respectively the industrial sector and farming.
