This needs to be engraved on the hearts of everyone in the political part of the Democratic party. Or, failing that, tattooed on their damned foreheads.
I think the Party was so spooked by the trouncing McGovern took back in '72, they have been running to the centre ever since. It is amusing to see how Mr Carter has been reinvented as a model of progressive liberalism, where at the time he was actually engaged in politics he was a candidate of the centre. Nothing against Mr Carter, but this re-definition speaks volumes to me about how far the Party has strayed from its roots. But fair is fair, at the level of POTUS, candidates who are not too far left seem to have done well in recent years. Which makes the surge of Mr Sanders all the more encouraging.
1968 was an awful year. One candidate murdered, another murdered just as decisively by the media for being so emotional as to shed tears. I was only 12 then, but as I recall, Mr Humphrey was able to rouse little enthusiasm. IIRC, he was also accused of flip-flopping (or should we say "evolving"
a lot, too. But the GOP really refined both the dirty tricks and the Southern Strategy for that election, and things have been going downhill ever since.
-- Mal
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