In 1934, the du Ponts founded the American Liberty League, an organization that claimed to be devoted to teaching the American people about "the right to work, earn, save, and acquire property and to preserve the ownership and lawful use of property when acquired," and in the process, mobilizing a vast popular movement against the initiatives Roosevelt was undertaking. In reality, the group mostly issued shrill broadsides against the New Deal, warning of the new era of class conflict and government tyranny that was arising in the United States. As one pamphlet put it, the New Deal represented "the attempt in America to set up a totalitarian government, one which recognizes no sphere of individual or business life as immune from governmental authority and which submerges the welfare of the individual to that of the government."

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 1444