At a time when the GOP controls both houses of Congress and every Republican presidential wannabe is desperate to out-conservative his rivals, it's easy to forget that for a few decades in the middle of the last century Democrats dominated national politics, and that moderates - and even liberals - dominated the Republican Party.
As far as I can tell they still do.
7 posted on 01/29/2016 5:30:24 PM PST by Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)