During the campaign, a supporter called out, “Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!”
Adlai Stevenson answered, “That’s not enough. I need a majority.”
That was his “basket of deplorables” moment.
Stevenson was beloved by the left and the press and presented by them as a deep thinker. Eisenhower was thought to be a bumbling fool (yes, he managed D-Day, but have you ever heard him speak?) It’s kind of like how the press sometimes tries to paint President Trump as lazy. Yes, seems to never sleep and he has managed to undo in 2 1/2 years what it took Obama 8 years to accomplish, but have you read some of his tweets?
I expect her to be shouldered aside if she tries.
Dems lost touch with reality in 1829.
Founded 1828.
so in 1956, the Democrats lost touch with reality?
I think the same thing happened in 1972 with McGovern.
Will the same happen in 2020?
Maybe periodically, the Democrats go full force like that?
But if so, the bad news is, the Democrats rebound from such defeats.
After Stevenson’s two landslide defeats by Ike, JFK got the Democrats back in the White House four years later.
After the debacle of 1972, the Democrats regrouped and Jimmy Carter won back the Oval office for the Democrats.
While I hope and pray about this coming election year, I do wonder what of the future, and what’s going to happen in 2024 and beyond.
If DJT and and the USSC don’t force changes in the voting system in the SocDem cities i don’t see how Trump won’t “lose” the election.The Democrat cities can engineer a 40 state wipeout easily enough simply by doing what they did in several states in 16 and 18 and might have succeeded with had they not been plagued by incompetence in Florida-Palm Beach County.
Interesting the electoral map of the 1956 election shows all the states the Illinois liberal Stevenson won were in the south which at the time was controlled by conservative Democrats trying to hold onto a segregated society. Stevenson couldn’t even win his home state.
Southern Democrats, obeying their Republican hating grandparents with Civil War aftermath memories, actually facilitated the today’s dominance of the Democrat party by the liberal northeast and west coast urban areas. In another decade the Democrats would capture the southern black vote, and destroy segregation, under a southern democrat president, Lyndon Johnson. The southern whites, who voted for Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, would switch to the GOP in 1969.
Today the GOP hold on the south is threatened by the influx of northeastern liberals moving into the southern states combined with the solid black democrat vote and the influx of immigrants across the southern border. For a conservative party to hold the south (or capture other states) it must convert a large segment of the Hispanic vote (2nd and 3rd generation immigrants) or the black vote. This is what drives the “moderate” policies of the Bush family, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Karl Rove and other establishment leaders.
...and half the US population with them.
The dems have never restored their touch with reality. It’s now the party of reparations, “take Whitey’s money,” guaranteed universal income, “free” college, loss of national identity, open borders, suppression of Christianity and promotion of *slam.
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When there are enough free-stuff/legalize-my-cousin Hispanic voters to flip Texas into “Tejas” and Florida into “Floreeeda”, then it is game over. The U.S. presidency becomes the California governorship. Once Ronald Reagan’s. Now forever a possession of the Left.
This could happen as soon as Election 2020. I doubt it will happen later than 2028. Regardless, it will happen.
Then we will all get to live in a national California - with left-wing policies in place from top to bottom. High taxes, race/ethnicity preferences for everything, males in female spaces, and speech-code-based prosecutions against those who object. But with the borders declared null and void, and the third world pouring in, even California conditions won’t last. In the end, the greatest nation in history will lie dead. Just another dangerous third-world sh-t-hole. Any middle-class whites remaining will live like they do today in South Africa, hunkered down behind walls, razor wire and guard dogs.