What basic economic and political policies were pursued by the conservative republican administrations of the 1920s? why were liberal or "progressive" politics so weak in the 1920s?

1. The Republican administrations of the prosperous 1920s pursued conservative, probusiness policies at home and economic unilateralism abroad.

2. With the waning of the Progressive Era, the political landscape of Republican him as weak, lazy, or incompetent, he was actually quite shrewd and politically astute. As for Harding, few presidents were so deeply mourned by the populace.