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He won also in spite of South Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Thurmond siphoning off Democratic votes (and 39 electoral votes) as a Dixiecrat protesting civil rights commitments in the Democratic Party’s platform. Truman won because he kept his party and himself from seeming incoherent and boneless.
[Truman was President after Roosevelt died in office in 1945. He was elected for the first time in 1948. He did not run in 1952.]
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So, the Republican National Committee should immediately stipulate that subsequent Republican debates will be open to any and all — but only — candidates who pledge to support the party’s nominee.
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So, conservatives today should deal with Trump with the firmness Buckley dealt with the John Birch Society in 1962. The society was an extension of a loony businessman who said Dwight Eisenhower was “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” In a 5,000-word National Review “excoriation” (Buckley’s word), he excommunicated the society from the conservative movement.
Buckley received an approving letter from a subscriber who said, “You have once again given a voice to the conscience of conservatism.” The letter was signed, “Ronald Reagan, Pacific Palisades, Cal.”
George Will is a syndicated columnist. In the interest of full disclosure he wanted readers to know that his wife, Mari Will, works for Scott Walker.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2015/08/will_donald_trump_s_a_counterfeit_republican
Will: Donald Trump’s a counterfeit Republican
Thursday, August 13, 2015
By: George F. Will
Boston Herald
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