Criticisms of Father Charles E. Coughlin

•Originally supported the New Deal, but turned against it because he felt FDR failed to follow through with additional radical reforms and condemned it as inadequate

•Political Criticisms

•He attacked the New Deal as a Communist conspiracy and FDR as a dictator

•Economic Criticisms

•He felt new measures needed to be taken

•An inflated currency based on silver

•A sterner reform of the banks

•Government take over of major industries