Well said.
I always laugh at those asserting Robert Taft was such a great stateman. Being from Ohio, perhaps because I know better.
I can’t think of a family that has done more harm here than the Tafts.
He has amazing press as a supposed conservative because he opposed some aspects of the New Deal.
But his full record tells a different story:
(1) Although he was a wholehearted supporter of Social Security.
(2) He opposed putting the Nazis on trial for their crimes.
(3) He opposed the founding of NATO because he feared it would antagonize the Soviet Union which, according to him, "posed no threat."
(4) He was an early advocate (from the 1920s!) of a World Court that would have jurisdiction over the US even in matters pertaining to American sovereignty.
(5) 16 years before LBJ's Great Society he wrote a bill calling for sweeping government-subsidized public housing.
This guy's PR corps is amazing.