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Originally Posted by catswiththum
Nope.
Although not a fan of Wilson or LBJ (both crooks from opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum), I would like to see a Democratic Party more in the vein of FDR's - while I would probably disagree with many of his initiatives, he was a civil man and valued decorum and protocol when debating the issues.
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And it's not really accurate to describe Wilson as being on the left. He was a half-mad racist jerk. The Democratic Party then wasn't as it was post-FDR and [i]certainly not what it has been since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Say what you will about Johnson - and, in many respects, you'd be right - but he continued the work that FDR began. The Great Society was the lineal descendant of the New Deal.