Best Democratic candidate for preventing the Reagan Revolution?

Which Democrat had the best chance of forestalling the Reagan Revolution?

  • Hubert Humphrey

    Votes: 8 10.1%
  • Edmund Muskie

    Votes: 5 6.3%
  • Edward Kennedy

    Votes: 27 34.2%
  • Henry Jackson

    Votes: 25 31.6%
  • Birch Bayh

    Votes: 6 7.6%
  • Adlai Stevenson III

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • John Glenn

    Votes: 10 12.7%
  • None of these Candidates (and nobody else)

    Votes: 7 8.9%
  • None of these Candidates (but somebody else - who?)

    Votes: 7 8.9%
  • None of these Candidates (Bobby Kennedy)

    Votes: 13 16.5%

  • Total voters
    79

Spengler

Banned
A shift to the right was inevitable as the baby boomers hit their 30's and 40's and where no longer young radicals... no candidate can prevent the general effects of a 90 million person voting block losing their radical youth
I would say not so much, really what happened was that the right offered these people stability when they were looking for that very thing in their lives and provided the illusion of stability. If the left had been able to do that there would probably not be a Reagan revolution.
 
I don't think Jackson would prevent a rightward tilt of the GOP. It was a process that began with the slow unravelling of the two-parties-in-one farce in the South in the '50s with Allan Shivers and with Bush in Harris County admitting Dixiecrats into the local GOP in '62, then the Goldwater movement. Off the top of my head I can't think of an alternate Reagan.

Likely true, but the nature and shape of the GOP shift rightward might be different.
 
With the Dixiecrats bringing fiscal conservatism, they also bring social conservatism, so scratch that. What can be easily butterflied is supply-side in favor of either Austrian or monetarism, something that would make me, for one, very happy.
 
With the Dixiecrats bringing fiscal conservatism, they also bring social conservatism, so scratch that. What can be easily butterflied is supply-side in favor of either Austrian or monetarism, something that would make me, for one, very happy.

I am more of a monetarist myself, but I feel that the social conservative ascendancy really emerged following 1976 and the disappointment Evangelicals felt in Carter.
 
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