[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.

[Hieronymus]

Good response. Either 1968 or 1972 was the point of no return—all that is going on now is the purging of any evidence that the past was different than the present