historian george h. nash argues: unlike the "moderate," internationalist, largely eastern bloc of republicans who accepted (or at least acquiesced in) some of the "roosevelt revolution" and the essential premises of president truman's foreign policy, the republican right at heart was counterrevolutionary. anticollectivist, anti-communist, anti-new deal, passionately committed to limited government, free market economics, and congressional (as opposed to executive) prerogatives, the g.o.p. conservatives were obliged from the start to wage a constant two-front war: against liberal democrats from without and "me-too" republicans from within.