And they continued to re-elect him. In this way, the conservative Republican policies of the nineteen twenties changed to the more progressive policies of Roosevelt in the nineteen thirties.
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His Conservatives are further to the right than the former ProgressiveConservative Party, which governed Canada on and off until its annihilation in 1993 and which was barely distinguishable from the Liberals.
After a catastrophic defeat in 1993, the ProgressiveConservative party (as it was then named) split into two rival parties, allowing the Liberals to win big majorities with just 40% of the vote.