McGovern was a decent guy with way out ideas. His followers were and remain lunatics. They are our rulers.
No. He was part of a cadre of Stalin's men who mounted the rump, breakaway Democratic convention in, um, I think it was 1948. McGovern was a delegate at that rump convention, and the presidential candidate of the same group of people in 1972. He was always their guy, and he had to know what he was doing. Nobody, but nobody, is that stupid.