Editing New Deal coalition (section)

===Roosevelt moves left===
The president in 1933 wanted to bring all major groups together, business and labor, banker and borrower, farms and towns, liberals and conservatives. The escalating attacks from the right, typified by the [[American Liberty League]] led by his old friend [[Al Smith]], spoiled the dream. Sensing how quickly public opinion was becoming more radical, Roosevelt moved left. He attacked big business.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Jean|last1=Edward Smith|title=FDR|year=2008|pages=361–363, 368}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=H. W. |last1=Brands|title=Traitor to his class: the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt|year=2008|pages=345–347, 447–449}}</ref> His major innovations now were social security for the elderly, the WPA for the unemployed, and a new labor relations act to support and encourage labor unions.<ref>Leuchtenberg, 124, 131, 150. .</ref>   Running for reelection in 1936, Roosevelt personalized the campaign and downplayed the Democratic Party name. In contrast to his 1933 position as a neutral moderator between business and workers, he now became a strong labor union supporter. He crusaded against the rich upper class, denouncing the "economic royalists". He worked with third parties on the left: the [[Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party]], the [[Wisconsin Progressive Party]], and the [[American Labor Party]] (ALP) in New York state.<ref>Leuchtenberg, 124, 131, 150.</ref> In New York City he collaborated closely with Republican [[Fiorello La Guardia]], against the conservatives of [[Tammany Hall]] who had controlled city hall. La Guardia was the candidate of the ad-hoc City Fusion Party, winning the mayoralty in 1933 and reelection in 1937 and 1941. La Guardia was also the nominee of the [[American Labor Party]] (ALP), a union-dominated left-wing group that supported Roosevelt in 1936, 1940,and 1944. The role of the ALP was to funnel socialists who distrusted the Democratic Party into the New Deal coalition. In 1940 La Guardia chaired the nationwide Committee of Independent Voters for Roosevelt; in return, the president put him in charge of the [[Office of Civilian Defense]].<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Thomas|last1=Kessner|title=Fiorello H. LaGuardia|journal=History Teacher|volume=26|number=2|year=1993|pages=151–159|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/494812}}</ref> He retired and was replaced as mayor in 1945 by [[William O'Dwyer]], the Tammany candidate.