I believe FDR managed to get more and more card-carrying Socialists to join the Democrat Party camp by co-opting their agenda during his presidency.
Look at Norman Thomas’s (the Socialist Party’s perennial nominee for President) numbers over FDR’s four elections — Thomas had over 800,000 votes and nearly 3% of the vote overall in 1932, but was down to a minuscule 0.16% by 1944.
What really irks me is the useful idiots on “our side” (most of them neo-confederate swine) who repeat the myth about how “a few decades ago, the Republicans were the liberal party in this country” and “the Democrats were the conservative party back then” and “the two parties switched sides in the 60s and 70s”
Indeed, what did Thomas voters want that FDR didn’t give them? There was no need for a separate party anymore.
This split in the rat party is wonderful to behold. But I’m not so sure the Stalinists are in ascendancy, a couple of their darlings have won, one in Nebraska 2 beat ex Rat Rep Brad Ashford, eliminating rat hopes of taking back that seat, but more have lost.
I’ll repeat that I think this girl or whatever she is in NY probably won her low-turnout primary more because of her Hispanic name than because of her platform and that Crowley would have a decent shot at winning on the Working Families Line in November if he tried.
Yeah, that's utter horsecrap. The South was just as likely to elect Big Gubmint Democrats decades ago as anywhere else. Look at the infamous Mississippi Democrat Senator Theodore Bilbo. He was a big time New Dealer along with being an epic-level racist. My Congressional district has elected mostly left-wing or national Democrats for most of the 20th century. One became Majority Leader & Speaker (Jo Byrns), another (J. Percy Priest) became Majority Whip. When Priest died, a center-right Democrat won to succeed him (Carlton Loser) and it upset the local Dems enough that when Loser beat left-winger Richard Fulton in the primary (claiming voter fraud), Fulton ran as an "Independent (Leftist) Democrat" to take the seat from Loser in the general. So it's been 58 years since a non-leftist has won here. And, of course, we had the two left-wing Senators Albert Gore, Sr. and Estes Kefauver. So that "big lie" deserves a derisive laugh in the face to anyone who repeats it.