in fact, the republicans that opposed the new deal were very similar to the british liberals that abolished the poor laws, thereby creating the gilded age; insofar as reaganism is rooted in thatcherism, the claim that the opposition to the new deal was an early type of neo-liberalism is actually quite well-grounded. reagan's dismantling of the welfare system, his welfare queen and the whole thing, is right out of the liberalism of victorian england.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/