11-21-2016, 01:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-21-2016, 01:47 PM by Eric the Green.)
(11-21-2016, 01:03 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Didn't Truman win a fifth consecutive term for the Democrats? Given that, the article Eric posts seems kind of whiny.
As Margaret Thatcher might say, there's lots to whine about.
Yes, Truman won that.
The pattern in the past has been that one party becomes predominant during and/or soon after a 4T. Neither party has achieved that yet in this 4T.
Republican dominance during and after the civil war lasted longer than the Democratic dominance during and after the Depression and WWII, although the Democratic Party's control returned after Ike and Democratic policies were mostly maintained even during Ike's reign. In 2T's apparently, the dominance breaks down.