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To: docbnj; Amity; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Eleutheria5; Netz; Jewbacca; Gaffer; RoosterRedux; ...
Actually, the Democrats were quite conservative until FDR came under the influence of socialistic academics.

Apparently you overlooked Woodrow Wilson, at least with respect to social and economic policy. Wilson was a socialistic academic himself, a Princeton president who wrote books and articles lambasting the Constitution as an anachronistic impediment to his proposed "progressive" agenda. Then, as President of the US, he introduced the country to such novelties (at the time) of a peacetime federal income tax, direct election of the Senate, a Federal Reserve System, and tougher antitrust laws and enforcement.

On foreign policy, though, you could view Wilson as an interventionist war monger, who went far beyond even what most "conservatives" today would embrace.

34 posted on 11/17/2014 8:14:45 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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Fair point. Thanks - I learned something.


35 posted on 11/18/2014 4:36:54 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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