RFK in '92

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What if Robert F Kennedy had not be assassinated in 1968 but only got the nomination and was elected President really late in life-1992? How would politics have developed and what would a RFK term in the 90s look like?
 
That's not happening. Past 1984 he will have younger ideological heirs like Clinton, Nunn, Gore and others to claim the DLC mantle, so if he doesn't win before then he'd invest in them.
 

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That's not happening. Past 1984 he will have younger ideological heirs like Clinton, Nunn, Gore and others to claim the DLC mantle, so if he doesn't win before then he'd invest in them.

Well Reagan also ran for at President (for the third time) in 1980 at 69. But would RFK as the Elder Statesman of the Democratic Party keep it more "Blue-Dog"? How would he think of the new Republicans like Gingrich?
 
Well Reagan also ran for at President (for the third time) in 1980 at 69. But would RFK as the Elder Statesman of the Democratic Party keep it more "Blue-Dog"? How would he think of the new Republicans like Gingrich?

He would definitely keep pushing the party in a DLC direction economically. Socially he'd keep them away from pure liberalism, but would not impose his own social views- which were in lockstep with the modern GOP right when it comes to gays and gynecology, if not necessarily guns. (Paraphrasing E.J. Dionne)

Republicans: He'd agree with them socially, economically denounce them as going way too far. Gingrich personally: both were/are amateur Civil War buffs. Kennedy's Virginia estate was McClellan's old field HQ.
 
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