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The beginning of the end was at the 1968 convention.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The beginning of the end was at the 1968 1896 convention."

Fixed it for you. The purge of the Conservative Bourbons like Grover Cleveland in favor of the Socialists like IL Gov. John Altgeld and William Jennings Bryan was the beginning of the end for the Democrats.