> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> >What an encouraging comparison! That was the period when the Republicans
> >did probably their greatest upsurge of organizing, building institutions
> >like Young Americans for Freedom and other "New Right" groups that laid
the
> >groundwork for taking over the Republican Party completely and shifting
> >national politics signficantly to the Right.
>
> I'm coming around to Nathan's argument that "progressives" should run
> in Dem primaries and in general try to hijack the party, just as the
> right did with the Republicans. What's to lose? The Greens seem more
> & more like a doomed fantasy.
Amen. Anyone who's interested in how the right did it in '64 should read Rick Perlstein's terrific book Before the Storm.
Seth