William Howard Taft, Republican, defeated three-time Democratic-nominee, William Jennings Bryan in 1908, carrying most states outside of the ‘Solid-South’. Democratic, New Jersey Governor, Woodrow Wilson defeated Taft in 1912, at a time when fundamental changes were occurring in politics. “Wilson embraced a ‘New Freedom’ version of progressivism. Yet after 1912, the Republican party began to shift ideologically to the Right. The Republican party’s ‘small-government platform’ cemented in 1930, with its heated opposition to FDR’s New Deal.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat, former NY Governor, served four-terms as president, inherited the Great Depression, and implemented his ‘New Deal Coalition’, defining modern liberalism, in response to our history’s worst economic crises. FDR regulated financial institutions, founded welfare & pension programs, and implemented infrastructure development. His 3rd & 4th terms were dominated by WWII, which ended shortly after he died in office, in 1945.
Harry S. Truman, 33rd president, succeeding to office upon the death of FDR in 1945, was elected in 1948, even though, after introducing a pro-civil-rights platform at the party’s 1948 Convention, a faction walked out. These defectors, known as Dixiecrats, held a separate convention in Birmingham, AL, where they nominated anti-civil-rights, S.C. Governor Strom Thurmond. “Thurmond lost the election, though he won over a million popular votes. Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe after WWII, and he established the Truman Doctrine & NATO, to contain Communist Expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic-reforms, but few were enacted by the ‘Conservative Coalition’ that dominated Congress.”
“Democratic-defectors started the switch to the Republican party, a movement called the ‘Southern Strategy’, when the Segregationist-States’-Rights Democratic party ‘Dixiecrats’ arose due to a Southern-split, in opposition to the Democratic party, whose platform supported limited-government & states-sovereignty, while opposing a national bank & high tariffs.” Following President Johnson’s Civil-Rights-Act of 1964 & Voting-Rights-Act of 1965, the party’s core-base shifted, with Southern states becoming more Republican in presidential-politics. After the SCOTUS 1973 Decision in Roe v Wade, the GOP opposed abortion in its party-platform and grew its support among evangelicals.
“In the 21st century, the GOP claims social-fiscal conservatism, lower taxes, free-market capitalism, restrictions on immigration, on abortions, on labor-unions, and increased military spending, gun-rights & deregulation. The party’s voter-base in the 21st century largely includes men, people living in rural areas, members of the ‘Silent Generation’, and white Americans, particularly white-evangelical-Christians.” (Wikipedia.org)
In 2021, people are leaving the Republican party in droves, many feeling its become a toxic personality-cult, following the extremely-divisive, 2016 – 2020 presidential term of twice-impeached, Donald J. Trump.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Aug 3 2021
Tale of 2 Parties, part 2
William Howard Taft, Republican, defeated three-time Democratic-nominee, William Jennings Bryan in 1908, carrying most states outside of the ‘Solid-South’. Democratic, New Jersey Governor, Woodrow Wilson defeated Taft in 1912, at a time when fundamental changes were occurring in politics. “Wilson embraced a ‘New Freedom’ version of progressivism. Yet after 1912, the Republican party began to shift ideologically to the Right. The Republican party’s ‘small-government platform’ cemented in 1930, with its heated opposition to FDR’s New Deal.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat, former NY Governor, served four-terms as president, inherited the Great Depression, and implemented his ‘New Deal Coalition’, defining modern liberalism, in response to our history’s worst economic crises. FDR regulated financial institutions, founded welfare & pension programs, and implemented infrastructure development. His 3rd & 4th terms were dominated by WWII, which ended shortly after he died in office, in 1945.
Harry S. Truman, 33rd president, succeeding to office upon the death of FDR in 1945, was elected in 1948, even though, after introducing a pro-civil-rights platform at the party’s 1948 Convention, a faction walked out. These defectors, known as Dixiecrats, held a separate convention in Birmingham, AL, where they nominated anti-civil-rights, S.C. Governor Strom Thurmond. “Thurmond lost the election, though he won over a million popular votes. Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe after WWII, and he established the Truman Doctrine & NATO, to contain Communist Expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic-reforms, but few were enacted by the ‘Conservative Coalition’ that dominated Congress.”
“Democratic-defectors started the switch to the Republican party, a movement called the ‘Southern Strategy’, when the Segregationist-States’-Rights Democratic party ‘Dixiecrats’ arose due to a Southern-split, in opposition to the Democratic party, whose platform supported limited-government & states-sovereignty, while opposing a national bank & high tariffs.” Following President Johnson’s Civil-Rights-Act of 1964 & Voting-Rights-Act of 1965, the party’s core-base shifted, with Southern states becoming more Republican in presidential-politics. After the SCOTUS 1973 Decision in Roe v Wade, the GOP opposed abortion in its party-platform and grew its support among evangelicals.
“In the 21st century, the GOP claims social-fiscal conservatism, lower taxes, free-market capitalism, restrictions on immigration, on abortions, on labor-unions, and increased military spending, gun-rights & deregulation. The party’s voter-base in the 21st century largely includes men, people living in rural areas, members of the ‘Silent Generation’, and white Americans, particularly white-evangelical-Christians.” (Wikipedia.org)
In 2021, people are leaving the Republican party in droves, many feeling its become a toxic personality-cult, following the extremely-divisive, 2016 – 2020 presidential term of twice-impeached, Donald J. Trump.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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