{"id":3347,"date":"2009-02-08T15:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/02\/08\/quick-1949-throw-away\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T15:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:08:20","slug":"quick-1949-throw-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/02\/08\/quick-1949-throw-away\/","title":{"rendered":"quick 1949 throw-away"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the liberals celebrated, the Republicans meditated, and their conclusions made them just so many floats in the triumphal parade for Fair Dealer Harry Truman.\u00c2\u00a0 “Does the Republican Party Have a Future?” asked the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, and his answer was affirmative only if the party established a “liberal record.”\u00c2\u00a0 The Saturday Evening Post, of all magazines, stripped away the main argument Deweyites had been using to console themselves; a heavier vote, the Post’s analyst argued, would have meant only a more resounding victory for the Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0 Nobody, it seemed, was a conservative any more.\u00c2\u00a0 Ex-Speaker Joe Martin discovered that the GOP was too full of “plutocrats.”\u00c2\u00a0 Senator Taft lectured a Republican caucus on the wisdom of backing “welfare measures”, and Senator Wherry let it be known that “fundamentalist” rather than “conservative” was the proper adjective for his philosophy.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Thomas Dewey used the occasion of his first major statement after the election to tongue-lash Republicans who “try to go back to the 19th century, or even to the 1920s.”\u00c2\u00a0 They “ought to … try to get elected in a typical American community and see what happens to them,”\u00c2\u00a0said Dewey, who spoke with considerable authority on the subject.<\/p>\n

—- Eric F Goldman Rendezvous\u00c2\u00a0With Destiny
\nA History of Modern American Reform,<\/em> 1952<\/p>\n

Just a passing thought word alterations in the “liberal” \/ “progressive” dichotemy (words\u00c2\u00a0have just been dropped on us\u00c2\u00a0interchangable, aren’t they?\u00c2\u00a0 Latter adopted after the former lost favor.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually it is that reason that I tend to cringe whenever I hear or read the word “progressive”, unless referring to something from the first two decades of the last century.)
\nOf course, the conservatives in 1948 quickly caught sight of Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon, and they were all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the liberals celebrated, the Republicans meditated, and their conclusions made them just so many floats in the triumphal parade for Fair Dealer Harry Truman.\u00c2\u00a0 “Does the Republican Party Have a Future?” asked the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge, and his answer was affirmative only if the party established a “liberal record.”\u00c2\u00a0 The Saturday Evening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}