Paul Johnson on H.L. Mencken's attacks against the New Deal

Mencken excelled himself in attacking the triumphant FDR, whose whiff of fraudulant collectivism filled him with genuine disgust.  He was the 'Fuhrer,' the 'Quack,' surrounded by 'an astonishing rabble of impudent nobodies,' 'a gang of half-educated pedagogues, nonconstitutional lawyers, starry-eyed uplifters and other such sorry wizards.'  His New Deal was a 'political racket,' a series of stupendous bogus  miracles,' with its 'constant appeals to class envy and hatred,' treating government as 'a milch-cow with 125 million teats' and market by 'frequent repudiations of categorical pledges.'

~ Paul Johnson, A History of the American People (1997), p. 762