Warren Harding was a publisher and editor of a senator who ran for the presidency under the Republican party. Before then, he has been in active politics as a Senator and as well as a Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
He denounced the nationalistic activism or the global idealism of the previous administrations but rather pleaded for normalcy. His famous speech contains this quote <em>"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration...not surgery but serenity."</em> resonates with the general Americans sentiment in support of his direction to take the government towards to.
This has historically be true for many colonies, such as those of Spain and Britain, but many colonies were started for the sole benefit of the colonists themselves.
