re: #232 HappyWarrior

Damn. BTW were your grandparents Debs people in that era? No idea about my family. I have a Pittsburgh professional biography that describes my paternal grandfather’s father as a Republican and my dad’s cousin told me my paternal grandmother’s father disliked Truman but he never told me for what reasons. Mom’s grandparents were Eastern European immigrants and pretty radical in that they loved FDR and John L. Lewis.

Yes Great Grandpa and Grandpa were Socialists during that time. What is interesting is that up thru the start of World War 1 there was an actual Socialist Party that elected a significant chunk of local officeholders. Wilson and his AG Palmer went after them when was declared. After the war and the Russian Revolution, Palmer had his famous raids carried out by his deputy J Edgar Transvestite which effectively destroyed the Socialist Party.