re: #364 Joe Bacon 🌹

It was ironic because Yorty got his start with Upton Sinclair’s E.P.I.C. governor campaign in 1934.

Didn’t know that either! I do remember reading that Henry Wallace who famously challenged Truman from the left in ‘48 drifted right and later supported Ike’s re-election and later Nixon. I do give Wallace credit for admitting he was wrong about the Soviets. I have heard that my Pap-Pap, my Nana’s father hated Truman but my Dad’s cousin never explained whether it was for lefty or righty reasons. His family seems to be pretty liberal like ours is but I don’t know which way Nana’s other two sisters and her brother the priest leaned, though I have heard her brother was pretty liberal for his time not just racially but on theology too- he told his sister’s mother in law that she shouldn’t feel worried about attending a wedding in a Protestant church. No big deal to us now but you know how it was for Catholics and Protestants brought up in the 19th century.