re: #220 jamesfirecat

Huh… if you say so.

Sorry it’s just that I’m having trouble wrapping my mind around why the “Anti-war in Nam” faction would suddenly gain a lot of power at exactly the point in time when their issue was becoming moot. Okay they might have swung Nixon’s first election to him, but by the time he was running for relection wasn’t the war over?

What exactly were these radicals pushing that was so radical since the war was no over?

There was a whole leftist agenda that the radicals had. They gained control of the party through anti-Vietnam activities and their agenda is what doomed their candidates.

Read up on the DLC and how it wrestled control of the party back starting with Clinton.