How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

[Mikebert]

I learned a bit from that article. I always saw the beginning of the anti-populist move in the Democratic party with JFK's call for tax cuts, which were implemented by Johnson in 1964. But Johnson pretty much on board with the New Deal and Humphrey was a New Dealer. I always knew that part of the shift was the civil rights/anti-war Democrats who wanted to put social issues front and center. But this article shows another generation divide between Lost and GI's. The old-school populist who was ousted was a Lost, one of the original New Dealers. The people who took over were GI's.