Comments on: The Fight that Broke the Democratic Party https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/the-fight-that-broke-the-democratic-party/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/the-fight-that-broke-the-democratic-party/#comment-700879 Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:10:30 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31415#comment-700879 In reply to dean.

Well, I didn’t actually write the book, so what I’m thinking doesn’t matter that much. But I think what the guy is thinking might include that.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/the-fight-that-broke-the-democratic-party/#comment-700342 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:35:41 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31415#comment-700342 Broke in the sense that it was the last time the Democratic party could be described as having a liberal core? I’d agree with that. The party has moved to the right/center (the region many Republicans of yore once inhabited) as the Republican party has moved into the authoritarian/love of strong-man style leadership/embracing of racism and bigotry/responsibility and integrity be damned position it currently occupies.

Are you thinking of other ways it’s broken?

]]> By: Jesse https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/the-fight-that-broke-the-democratic-party/#comment-700331 Sat, 26 Jan 2019 19:11:28 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31415#comment-700331 Hm. I don’t know that this broke the Democrats (being old enough to sort of remember this) but I think it certainly made it clear that Kennedy had too much baggage, and it was around this time I think that Chappaquiddick became a buzzword — I was about 11 at the time and even I can recall how it became almost a joke. (I think SNL ran with it a couple of times, though I could be wildly misremembering the timing)

Either way, it’s interesting as a look about how primaries have changed, I bet. So I would give it a read for sure.

I do remember when Kennedy basically announced on TV that he wasn’t running — did that run nationally or just in Massachusetts?

When you say working in the Kennedy campaign was a bad thing, do you mean because it hurt Carter’s chances (I would offer that it probably did less than a lot of other things) or just because the campaign had a reputation for being a bit all over the place?

]]> By: curtis m. goodnight https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/23/the-fight-that-broke-the-democratic-party/#comment-699277 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 03:48:49 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31415#comment-699277 interesting- thanks for the recommendation – BTW, Matt Stoller had a nice essay on the post Watergate purge within the Dems….. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710/

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