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Gov. Al Smith and the Anti-Trump Republicans
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:00 pm
Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:00 pm
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In 1936, Former New York Gov. Al Smith decided that he could not support President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s re-election.
Smith was a popular reform Democrat who had been elected Governor of New York four times. In 1928, he became the first Catholic ever nominated for President by a major party. To strengthen his campaign, Smith convinced Roosevelt, who was then recovering from polio at Warm Springs, Georgia, to come back and run for governor. Smith lost the presidential race to Herbert Hoover, but Roosevelt became Governor of New York.
When Roosevelt’s New Deal embraced government activism, powerful measures of intervening in the economy, and creating government programs for the poor and unemployed, Smith was alienated. He had been part of the eastern conservative wing of the Democratic Party, which had fought against William Jennings Bryan.
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Gov Smith decided to not back FDR for re-election in 1936. Despite Smith’s defection, the Roosevelt New Deal coalition was massive (Roosevelt defeated Republican Kansas Gov. Alf Landon by 523 electoral votes and received 60.8 percent of the vote). Landon carried only Maine and Vermont.
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I tell that story to say this: The anti-Trump Republicans resemble the anti-Roosevelt Democrats of 1936. They yearn for a party which has disappeared. They advocate policies which are no longer realistic or viable. They are repelled by President Trump’s aggressive style and his dramatic shifts in policy.
They are rapidly becoming a fossilized reminder of a party which no longer exists – and wants to operate in a world which no longer exists.
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Some have begun to harken back to the President Ronald Reagan years as a golden time. They wish the GOP could return to them. It is impossible to return to the 1980s, because the world has changed. The problems have changed. The politics have changed. And the institutions are sicker and more destructive than they were under Reagan.
Reagan would have been appalled at a 22-year war in Afghanistan.
People who object to President Trump’s aggressiveness and hide behind a sanitized, phony memory of Reagan forget that it was Governor Reagan who said of the Berkeley protests, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”
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Posted on 3/25/24 at 10:09 pm to BCreed1
Posted on 3/26/24 at 9:38 am to Kafka
The article is a great read. For those that do not know, Al Smith withdrew his support of FDR in 1936. He gave a speech that most need to hear.
I don;t want to take this thread in a different direction.. so I will start another thread on it.
I don;t want to take this thread in a different direction.. so I will start another thread on it.
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