Southern Democrats

Now, what will this Republican Party be by 1860? How will it threaten the South? Will it threaten the South? John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and his execution were a template all into that next spring as the American political culture held its conventions and nominated candidates and prepared for an election that now people said might decide whether the Union would hold together or not.

The Democrats held their convention in late April, early May, in the worst possible place they could hold it.

They had scheduled it well ahead of time in Charleston, South Carolina.

Charleston was a hotbed of Southern rights and Southern nationalism, if you want to call it that, and Southern secessionism.

Same Stephen Douglas of popular sovereignty fame.

But Stephen Douglas had made one slip-up.

Well, he'd made more than one, but he made one, two really big slip-ups in terms of his fellow Southern Democrats.

I mean, he's by far the most prestigious person in their party.

It's just a math problem for Democrats.

And I wrote about this about a week ago, that in order to win, Doug Jones would have to – Exceed not only his total from 2017 when he won, but also the Democratic baseline from the past other candidates for governor by about 90,000 votes.

And that's a lot.

Yeah.

Todd, folks want to check out Alabama Daily News, or they want to know what you've got coming up on Capital Journal, let them know.

We've got a great episode of Capitol Journal tonight.

We're going to be talking with both party chairmen, Scott Stathagen from the Alabama Republican Party, Bobby Singleton from the Alabama Democratic Party, and Amy Walter.

I went up to Birmingham.

But we cannot understand our current ailments by just thinking, oh, there is Donald Trump and that's the problem.

In fact, Democrats made that mistake in 2020.

They thought that if they defeated Donald Trump and went back to what had emerged as their factory settings of the 2010s, everything would be fine.

And you know what happened? People in four years' time were much more dissatisfied.

Industrial society did two things that were highly important for liberal democracy.

One is that it created broad coalitions.

Think of FDR's New Deal coalition, which brought together Southern Democrats, more left-leaning intellectuals, and the labor movement.

Think of social democracy in Nordic countries, which was spearheaded by politicians that were representatives and very closely aligned with the union movement, but then they reached out to the middle class and brought in the coalition.

But what eventually happened with the Democratic Party is, as voting patterns changed, as I think demographics changed, the party decided to be a multiracial coalition that was maximum on expanding the right to vote and expanding civil rights protections.

And this caused them a break with the Southern Democrats circa 1965.

Now, you can say that they made that choice because they had enough votes where that was that new block that they were trying to um that new electorate that they were trying to put together it was to their advantage to do so to make that switch there was there were certain arguments to be made in that regard but they nevertheless had to give up on southern democrats to do that and they just didn't want to be in you can't be a party that's a multi-racial multi you know uh kind of coalition in that in the 1960s and then still be in business with you know the strong thermans of the world or whatever So they made a break.

And I see a similar break with the parts of the leadership and then the parts of the donor class and then everyone else that cannot reconcile with the crimes of Israel.

I see a similar break coming with them.

The infamous CIA director, Allen Dulles.

Hale Boggs, Democrat from Louisiana.

And a senator from Georgia named Richard Russell, who reluctantly signed off on the sham because, as it turns out, he failed to be convinced that it wasn't actually a conspiracy.

Which inclines me to include just a couple of observations from history.com about an article entitled, "Nine Things You May Not Know About the Warren Commission." Like some of the members of the commission didn't want to serve on it, including Senator Richard Russell, who didn't like Warren's liberal judicial record.

And ironically, he was a Southern Democrat from Georgia, and this was obviously long before the requirement that you be a card-carrying socialist to be a part of that party.

Gerald Ford, who secretly provided information on the commission to the FBI.

The fact that Earl Warren suppressed key evidence, like the autopsy photos.

And while most Americans probably realize by now that the twenty twenty election was rigged beyond all possibility of a convincing cover-up to anybody with enough of a brain to even examine the evidence, nothing, and I mean nothing, has been done to prevent it from happening, and it will again.

She's done with the left.

She's done with these radical Democrats.

And the Democrats of today are not even the Democrats of – The 1990s, I mean, these, you know, going back to, and a lot of people don't like to talk about this, you know, William Jefferson Clinton.

And I'm not, no, I know he, yes, he was chasing around the interns in the oral office back in the day.

And I am not justifying that.

But he was an old-school Southern Democrat.

He wasn't some sort of a radical leftist like the types we have now.

So when you look back at Bill Clinton and his presidency, I mean, he's almost a Republican based on what today's Democrats believe.