Dems

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 4 06:54:12 PDT 1999


Michael Perelman wrote:


>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>
>> Now do we understand why the McGovernites failed so convincingly? If there
>> was ever a time to build a truly social democratic party in the U.S., it
>> was during and in the immediate aftermath of Nixon...
>
>I don't feel that I fully understand it. I consider your question to be an
>important one.

What's the question? Why did McGovern fail electorally, or why did the leadership of the Democrats try (successfully) to purge the party of its social dem strain?

Doug



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