[syriacus]

So, in answer to your query about the Korean War, the Democratic Party was doing its utmost to prove that it was as Anti-Communist as the Republican Party

What you wrote makes a good deal of sense. I need to learn more about the period immediately after WWII.

[Cato Uticensis]

"So, in answer to your query about the Korean War, the Democratic Party was doing its utmost to prove that it was as Anti-Communist as the Republican Party

What you wrote makes a good deal of sense. I need to learn more about the period immediately after WWII."

Ann Coulter wrote quite a bit about it in "Treason." Get yourself a copy of that, it is most illuminating.

One of the big events was that 1946 was like 1994, the Republicans swept into power and they forced a change in direction on the New Deal Democrats. New Deal Democrats wanted to continue the Alliance with the USSR and together build a socialist world. 1946 forced a changing of the Guard in the Democratic Party to the GI Generation Democrats, like JFK, RFK and George Smathers. That's why Kennedy stood up to the Reds during the Cuban Missile Crisis and RFK helped Joe McCarthy. RFK was the second man of so-called "McCarthyism." It wasn't until the late '60s that the Democratic Party returned like a dog to its own vomit and began loving Communism again. Remember that JFK opposed the Big Left establishment from the New Deal, and we all know what happened to him and his brother, Liberal propaganda notwithstanding.

Back to 1946. The Democrats had had a virtual lock on power since 1932. In that year they took both Houses of Congress, the presidency, most of the Governorships and state legislatures. The same hypocritical Democrats who bellyached about a "one party state" in 2002 and 2004 look back on the New Deal Era as halcyon days, and in those days America really was a one party state. Republicans didn't even have one hundred members in the House, much less two hundred. Suddenly the GOP has a majority again and so they went about major changes in tactics. See the Republic of Utica's previous post "The Great Left Wing Manpower Shortage" for more on that. But the main thing they did was give control, for a time, over to Anti-Communist WWII vets, people who were like Zell Miller (a Korean War vet, same generation, just a couple years too young for WWII).