[lbo-talk] negligible and stupid

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Wed Mar 4 16:00:44 PST 2009


On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:03:49 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
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The GOP was the long time political home of Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., who was for his day certainly considered to be quite a progressive. In 1924 he ran for president as a third-party candidate on the Progressive Party ticket, and enjoyed the support the early CPUSA.

In places like Wisconsin and Minnesota the GOP was for a long time quite progessive,


> And more. Wilkie was far enough left that (at least according to
> some
> accounts) before FDR's death he and Wilkie had plans to restructure
> u.s.
> politics by forming a party to the left of both DP and RP. And one
> biographer of Wilkie was a flaming liberal himself. (He was on the
> Northern Michigan faculty.) And Stassen was not a joke to begin
> with.
>
> Also: While Taft was both conservative and isolationist (as was
> *Vandenberg before his 'conversion') isolationism was NOT at all
> synonymous with conservative politics.
>
> And Taft was a mixture. He had an educational plan that would be
> considered rabidly socialist today, and his foreign policy would
> have
> been far preferable to that of Truman/Eisenhower. And Morse, my
> favorite
> Senator, was a Republican to begin with. The GOP was consistently
> anti-labor: TR thought strikers should be treated in the fashion
> the
> French treated the Comjunards. And Landon's politics were not all
> that
> bad. (In terms of what is possible in mainstream politics.)
>
> Carrol
>
>
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