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In reply to the discussion: Is the Democratic Party as divided nationally as DU? [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)There have been efforts to purge the Party of its Left-wing in the past. In 1948, the onset of the Cold War led the Harry Truman liberals to push out the Henry Wallace Progressives. That led to a 3-way split with the Strom Thurman Dixiecrats also exiting stage Right. Truman was narrowly reelected, but we got into the Korean War and eight years of Ike-Nixon beginning in 1952.
During the Vietnam War, there was a similar split which led to the 1968 Chicago Convention that saw the Daley Democrats heckling liberal speakers, along with an open battle on the Convention Floor over the seating of the Mississippi delegation. Meanwhile, outside the Chicago Police literally cracked heads as the smell of teargas permeated the arena. Nixon again.
This is nothing new.