A simple question. Did they always have some vested interests in working together yet appear as red vs blue or were they separate then slowly coalesse over the years into becoming a unified deep state?
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There, fixed that for ya. Hoover portrayed himself as a conservative, and was portrayed by the Left as a rabid, uncaring man... but a lot of his policies and people were kept on by FDR. Kinda like how a lot of people in the Dubya government were kept on by Obama.
Meanwhile, Coolidge did a lot of radical things, and was vilified for them. Every department in the Executive Branch got a 10% budget cut per year, and all office supplies were rationed (to keep people from stealing them and selling them). The end result was ostracism to the point that lifetime Federal employees quit rather than work for Coolidge.
Your grievance against Hoover's response to depression is understandable but blind to magnitudes.
Yes, Hoover did create many of the programs that FDR rolled with. But under Hoover's government they were all very small.
I understand that there are some people, probably even yourself, who adopt a "size matters not" attitude with regards to government programs, but, well, that's irrational absolutism, and we're never going to agree on that.