01-19-2017, 10:30 AM
This is all part of a larger narrative - and that is the left's refusal to echo Arthur Vandenberg and his "Politics stops at the water's edge" mantra from World War II.
When FDR handed Joe Stalin half of Europe on a silver platter at Yalta, don't you think that the Republicans wanted to drag FDR out of that wheelchair and ground-and-pound him? Yet they did the right thing and kept their mouths shut - and were rewarded in 1946 with what is still the most definitive midterm landslide victory in American history.
See also Clement Attlee, whose Labour Party came to power in the aftermath of that same war - and brought single payer health care to Britain.
When FDR handed Joe Stalin half of Europe on a silver platter at Yalta, don't you think that the Republicans wanted to drag FDR out of that wheelchair and ground-and-pound him? Yet they did the right thing and kept their mouths shut - and were rewarded in 1946 with what is still the most definitive midterm landslide victory in American history.
See also Clement Attlee, whose Labour Party came to power in the aftermath of that same war - and brought single payer health care to Britain.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892