Lemmylibs: “We can fix him! I don’t know how, but you all must vote for him!”
Him: “How can I better appeal to the block that swore never to vote for me?”

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    2 months ago

    Correction: It hasn’t had a real left wing since Truman. The Taft-Hartley act effectively excised the trade unions from having anything to do with the Democratic party. Half the Democratic party voted in favour of it, which allowed them to override Truman’s veto.