big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left leaders did sign on to become 'junior' partners, socialist/farmer-labor/communist/american labor/etc congressional candidates took big hits that year...
Well, there is a difference between FDR's snuggling up with the CPUSA and John Kerry's back of the hand treatment towards anybody to the left of Chuck Schumer, but I would prefer that the left have nothing to do with the Democrats, whether doors or opened or not.
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