So, was reading the wiki on HHH, and I found this interesting tidbit:
So, under what conditions could Hubert Humphrey stay a Republican? Is it as easy as keeping Henry Wallace on the Democrat ticket in 1944?
If he does stay, I'd imagine he'd be a Republican very much in the mold of Harold Stassen (only maybe more successful).
Thoughts?
Wikipedia said:Humphrey was a Willkie Republican in 1940, but during the postwar mop-up, when old American radicals were kicked out of a newly war-enamored Left, Humphrey busily extirpated Bryanism from the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party so that the populist FL might merge with the Trumanite hawks of the Democratic Party. “A Republican less than five years earlier,” [political scientist Jeff] Taylor notes of HHH in 1947, “he was now reading lifelong Farmer-Laborites out of the party.” The Humphrey fusionists vanquished “the traditional agrarian populists within the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party.”[3]
So, under what conditions could Hubert Humphrey stay a Republican? Is it as easy as keeping Henry Wallace on the Democrat ticket in 1944?
If he does stay, I'd imagine he'd be a Republican very much in the mold of Harold Stassen (only maybe more successful).
Thoughts?