How The South Turned From Democrat To Republican

[@tdakard9743]

If you ever wonder how you are received in America, please know that this 67 year-old who has lived in Texas 44 years, thinks you both are brilliant and your presentation is outstanding. I have only recently discovered your podcast, but I am binging past episodes with pleasure. Thank you and Cheers!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you so much !

[@gprang]

It's a point of view, but it is clear that, as Brits, they have no concept of American values. It is tedious, for example, to hear them struggle to understand the history of the parties. It is clear that they bring a fundamentally British view of race, the role of the Federal government, and the basic conflicts and synergies of the American system. They don't exactly get it wrong, but it's rather frustrating and, as I say, tedious. It's like listening to some American puzzle over the British psyche about colonialism. I have listened with respect and indeed awe to dozens of their videos, but this one is in a class by itself, and that is fortunate.

[@VaucluseVanguard]

What do you mean about the British psyche re colonialism? Most British people don’t know anything about our colonial past, few who do hanker after or have any nostalgia for the empire and colonialism. However, a big part of the British psyche - more accurately it humour - is that we love playing up to people’s perceptions of us especially their prejudices. I’m much more likely to play up to the empire loving colonist put down stereotype with an American or an Aussie precisely because I know the history winds you up and not because I would in any way want to go back to those times. Winding people’s prejudices up is at the very core of British humour. That’s what these two do wonderfully.

[@BoninBrighton]

@@gprangand Americans have a very skewed version of the UK inside their heads. As a tour guide I see it with tourists all the time.

[@kilpatrickkirksimmons5016]

As another American I agree. Tom Holland has been my favorite author going back years now. I've read everything he's written, and his cohost seems pretty solid too

[@ewangent]

Dominic was excellent on the rest is politics, the only one with a truly analytical approach to the election although Alastair tried his best

[@joannamoore4477]

Dominic was the absolute stand out . Dominic argued the real meaning of fasism so well

[@bluemonday70-bl5ne]

Marina also had good insights but she wasn't as articulate as Dom who can just cut to the chase. TRIP and TRIH are the only media I have been able to digest in these last few days.

[@edwardloomis887]

​@@joannamoore4477, if you want to use the term fascism, learn how to spell it. Love, Samuel Johnson

[@waterboys3001]

I have UK and US citizenship. I watched the highlights on KZbin. The panel was clueless. Dominic was the only rational contributor. If you were looking for evidence that Britain's political media class is as thick as mince this was it. I attended British embassy events in the US during the Iraq War and it was clear that Cheney viewed Blair as a useful idiot. Tony got rich so what does he care? Campbell was played. Rory is not very bright and Scarimucci is an idiot.

[@Bobmudu35UK]

​@@edwardloomis887 Ooh,supercilious and condescending,love! 😅😅

[@Muddipaws1308]

I never thought American Political History could be so funny, this is by far the best I have listened to

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@can72287]

Wym ? American politics is a complete joke 😂

[@TheJonnyzeus]

Fascinating. A temporally prescient analysis. History doesn’t repeat itself “but it rhymes”. Bravo.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@gprang]

Any resemblance, connection, or similarity between George Wallace and Donald Trump is a figment of imagination. There is literally none.

[@James-iz9qb]

This is a very strained comparison. Some similar rhetorical strategies is about as far as you can stretch it. Beyond that, Trump and Wallace are completely different

[@jeremybean-hodges6397]

Outsiders who attempt a hostile takeover of a whole party. Dog whistle to a return to a “better time” Rhetoric about the risk of those of racial difference Voter rump in the Deep South Voter base among working class whites who feel threatened

[@cdeford2]

I agree. People on the left call Trump racist but I don't see that at all. He wants to stop illegal immigration but so too do many minority groups in the US. He won in some of the swing states largely because Hispanics came out for him.

[@Ross-e9o]

I suspect that the only connection between Wallace and Trump is that the failure of mainstream politics created the situation where interlopers were able to garner ( in the case of Trump) widespread national support. In this regard both Tom and Dominic make the same mistake as the mainstream media today. They point their derision at the messengers rather than those who created it.

[@LordChlCha]

True, Trump is New York billionare, essentially a liberal, left by democrat party.

[@mpersad]

I studied US politics at school and university. I knew about Wallace, but had never realised his important place in the development of Democratic/Republican politics in the 1960s. Great video, terrific research and great commentary from Dominic.

[@suhrrog]

Trump is not "Super Wallace", not even close!

[@63pufferfish]

When do we get the episode they had banked if Harris won

[@frankgagas9569]

Dominic and Tom after all my comments I have to tell you that I enjoy all your podcasts. I do feel that your summary about the voting proclivities of the American southern states in the last 50 years was simplistic and based on British stereotypes. I hope you don’t mind hearing my opinions.

[@ElizabethSwift]

I am a 62-year-old Alabamian. Lurlene was the first Governor I knew of. I grew up with the idea that women could be politicians. I later learned that she was just a puppet for George Wallace. But that did not change my ideas of women politicians as normal. What he did to her was awful. George Wallace only wanted power at any cost. By the late 1970s, he courted the black vote to get elected again.

[@livesouthernable]

Middle aged Southern American unapologetic Republican here. I’m sure there are many things we wouldn’t agree on 😉, but I love your erudite perspective, and y’all have the best sense of humor. ❤

[@ulietudie]

Wow just wow thank you. It’s so enlightening to look back.

[@warrenbruhn5888]

Thank you for this and your other episodes on 1968. There is more to the George Wallace story later in his life, but I realize you might not have time to mention that.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

There are some similarities between Wallace and Trump, but Trump is light years away from Wallace in terms of social policy. For a start, he doesn't want to bring back racial segregation!

[@rafalrocks]

No one in their right mind would dream of bringing back Jim Crow in America. The very thought is preposterous and this includes the fartest right of right politicians you can imagine, the ones that are perennially referred to as fascist in American media

[@martinmotola919]

What do you think "deportations" are???

[@frankgagas9569]

Comparing deporting people who have entered the United States illegally to segregation is farcical. Just because you don’t like Mr. Trump doesn’t give you the right to make bad arrangements.

[@mariadange06]

Nor perpetual wars.

[@mariadange06]

@@martinmotola919illegal immigrants have invaded the US, not legal citizens.

[@frontier6937]

brilliant - as are all of your programs - detailed, in depth, thorough - much appreciated.

[@frankgagas9569]

21:45 you say Wallace says that there would be racial quotas. I guess foresaw DEI of the Biden administration

[@aesop1451]

Ok, you're being cheeky on purpose. Here's the three states that Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948, Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, and Southern Democrat George Wallace won in 1968: Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama (The Deep South). Thurmond famously switched party affiliation to the Republicans in 1964 and endorsed Goldwater. Goldwater said civil rights should be addressed at the state level instead of the federal level. Who's more likely to fly a Confederate flag today, a Democrat or Republican. I actually would've voted for Wallace, I just don't like my fellow Republicans accusing Democrats of being "the real racists."

[@computerhelpcc]

DEI built and implemented BEFORE Biden. Vast country, President is just a serious part but not 50% +... DEI developed and sold without gov't

[@frankgagas9569]

I have no idea how your comment relates to my comment.

[@np4029]

I know what you mean when you say DEI >wink

[@gprang]

@@aesop1451 The way to stop discriminating on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Since around 1975, Democrats have discriminated on the basis of race far more than Republicans. And if Republicans have discriminated on the basis of race, is has been (wrongly) in the direction of favoring minorities and women.

[@thomasblankenhorn5911]

Brilliant episode! Just one reminder: "When you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear flowers in your hair!!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@mattmunn71]

And don't go to the church with that lovely Jim Jones fella.

[@ODDwayne1]

Dominic...this was so well done. I wss born in 67 and really knew little of all this. Thanks to you both

[@AndrewMoss-w7r]

Superb episode. I had never heard of George Wallace before. And General LeMay... 😂😂😂😂

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@johnrohde5510]

Another corker! Thank you.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@anilchauisms]

Brilliant narration

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@francoisrichardsmith6595]

❤ this podcast...one of the best!!!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@janjordal9451]

Very interesting and enlightening. Thank you 🎉

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

Dominic and The mooch should go on a whisky tour

[@adefajemisin]

This was a great episode. I love the podcast. I learn so much from you.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@MrWhit30]

I was 11 years old in 68. Lifelong white male Alabamian. George Wallace is like my first memory of politics along with the JFK Assassination. I lived thru all of it. Good job.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@lizoconnor2752]

Segregation was his core rant. It worked all over America....not just the south. The real estate developer industry built post ww2 housing for soldiers and redlined the neighborhoods they built, partnered with the local county governments in order to separate blacks, jews, asians, whites. It was just a given that these actions became the underpinnings of systemic rascism. It was Segregation.

[@SuperMaximus66]

This was brilliant, gentlemen.!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@kambrose1549]

Brilliant! Those were hectic times. The menace of violence from all sides was palpable. I remember Wallace . Even to a teenager in the Uk he seemed to exude violence and a relish for power

[@eliseleonard3477]

What great detail! This episode really helps understand how in America, membership in a certain wing of the Christian church made it possible to feel uniquely virtuous while being racist, while at the same time white fears of desegregation were sort of merged with the fear of Communism (helped along by divisions over Vietnam). So much has happened since the 60’s but American political life is still dominated by these two transmogrifications. Trump called Harris a Communist (!?). Good to remember that the term ‘woke’ originated in the Black community and meant politically aware of what was behind these distortions of language, policy terms, and even thinking.

[@CrabgrassFarmer]

Bravo lads, this was the best Trumper Tantrum yet. But still, that's all it was ... except for the Lemay part. That was fascinating. Who says VP picks never really matter.

[@markmaclean1230]

You got me when you said George Wallace. When I was 6 years old 1968 I loved George Wallace. And I still love George Wallace. In fact, when I was 62 years old I became a member of the Sons of Confederate veterans in July of 2023 at the Kirby Smith camp in Jacksonville Florida. I am a Paleo conservative and I voted proudly for Pat Buchanan in 1992 for the primaries. I know even though you are too astute and very erudite British personalities I know the South was a very strange and weird of people that were said the southern states in the United States of America but for me and Jacksonville Florida I'm a little bit George Wallace in me to this day - but please even though you thought that we Southerners were crazy racist bigots maybe there were some other underlying indications define just maybe an old white man in the south......

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

Tuscaloosa is hardly the middle of nowhere it’s a pretty busy place, it’s less than an hour from Birmingham which is even busier. I think he’s thinking of Tulsa, OK

[@mjjoseph1853]

yeh, these America super-experts don't quite seem to realize that high tech in Alabama alone surpasses everything in ole Blighty.

[@dianawitty9628]

Hey!

[@danditto6145]

@@mjjoseph1853They can’t see it for all the Airbus, Austal, Hyundai factories and Huntsville rockets.

[@Wee_Langside]

Is that the same Bunker Hunt who tried to corner the silver market in 1979/80?

[@davidjohnson-pz2df]

Eyes widely OPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you

[@VaucluseVanguard]

The guys mention a book called 'An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968'. Thought I would try to get a copy. The cheapest I can find in English is $454! However, in Spanish or French you can pick it up for under $10. So, Dom don't lose your copy!

[@BoninBrighton]

Library?

[@rolymal9357]

You guys are great have won a new fan.

[@Adsper2000]

Lot of snowflakes in these comments. You guys can listen to Dom and Tom dismantle and make fun of wokist history endlessly, but the very second they turn it around against conservatives, no matter the context, you guys freak out and just can’t handle it. Grow a pair and learn a modicum of grace.

[@cg98243]

Nah. It's just sloppy.

[@McCallumMade]

The whole comment section is essentially hurt feelings. One thing you can't accuse these people of is self reflection.

[@Adsper2000]

@@McCallumMade A lot of Americans have made politicians a core part of their identity. By criticizing a politician they worship, you are therefore attacking them. That’s why they have free reign to say that everything negative that has ever happened is the fault of the party they happen to disagree with, but you can’t say anything that could even be remotely construed as negative about the party or politician they happen to agree with, otherwise you’re definitionally wrong, because their pathos demands it.

[@martinmotola919]

Christo-nazis aren't "conservatives"

[@RCx44]

It's actually just the same liberal projection we have heard all our lives but now in a British accent.

[@VintageKerry]

I have learnt so much from your thoughtful analysis and how it connects with what is happening now! Thanks so much!

[@rondaparsons9172]

I am an American and was 10 years old in 1968. I grew up in the north and remember adults being against Wallace. It was such a year of change…Dr. King’s assassination…the Vietnam war…the Chicago National Convention. In those days the north still looked down on the southern states, which I think still continues today, although to a lesser degree. Trump has always made me think of Wallace, so I think your podcast is brilliant. The fact that you are not American makes your commentary incredibly interesting and somewhat more objective than what we hear in the states.

[@Sirharryflash82]

They are not even remotely in common.

[@leslie4551]

@@rondaparsons9172 i was 8 years old in 1968 and remember adults being against Wallace as well.

[@camslumlord]

Big Jim had Adam Clayton Powell as a guest at the Governor’s Mansion. Quite risky for 1950’s Alabama.

[@infostudy101]

Very surprising how the South was once Democratic. Such a turnaround.

[@martinmotola919]

Southern Democrats were the klan wing of the party, a continuation of the confederacy.

[@waynedoucette1492]

This is back lash to culture. It's the churches reacting to no prayers in schools and gay people. I'm gay and this has been boiling for years.

[@dynamotexan]

would no public prayers or gay people what tip over the cliff in the 2024 elections? Personally could understand raising the temperature in the pot but far from the boiling point of Republican elect with also popular vote

[@angru_arches]

It was the transing of kids and termination of the pre-born, morally speaking and the economy and border ethically speaking... I'm Christian and the progressive erosion of morals have galvanized all religious and even moderate voters.

[@KingPhilipF]

Wallace as a judge had a fairly progressive record for the time, until he loses his first bid for governor. He then ends his governorship as being more progressive than the north, with over 90% of the black vote. So he doesn't mean any of it. It was all for votes. But that blind ambition hurts the black community and forever paints the south as "Wallace racists".

[@liberty_and_justice67]

Brilliant! Historically, the 1960’s were not that long ago but it was a very different world in many respects. Explains the Trump phenomenon quite well.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@jedighostbear4401]

If this were an American podcast someone would have yelped "Roll Tide!" at the mention of the University of Alabama

[@martinmotola919]

VANDY!!!!

[@johnnywondbel672]

Brilliant stuff

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@jakegarvin7634]

"But *I* have read a single book"...amazing

[@warrenbruhn5888]

I was only 9 years old. I remember George Wallace. One of my parents voted for him.

[@elainemarra9790]

Great content

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@reecemccullough4829]

Toms hair looking magical

[@bluemonday70-bl5ne]

His wife must've seen a clip and made him cut it lol

[@nylesglynn8727]

Thanks. That's a really excellent broadcast. I would just draw attention to Bobby Kennedy's role as JFK's Attorney General. He was a very moral man, more than his brother, and was hugely significant in driving forward the de-segregationist agenda.

[@InkaHacker]

ANother one that predicted Trump is Alexander Bard on his book "The Netocrats" by 2002. He just follow the digital trend and realized that politics will became a stage for the entertaiment industry. Trump was the perfect candidate

[@autoproblematic5800]

Great episode; I would have thought Arthur Bremer would be mentioned.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@alexs_toy_barn]

Tom and Dominic's thumbnail "this politician foreshadowed Trump!!" Me "Domitian?"

[@restishistorypod]

That’s next week

[@domkane30]

Morrissey?

[@kerednilon4276]

Sulla

[@Sirharryflash82]

Garbage.

[@leshazell6050]

Julius caesar the end of the republic? 😂

[@camslumlord]

I was at Lurleen’s inauguration in 1967.

[@chriscorben-green2640]

Now he is no longer a pub quiz answer, is there any chance of an episode on Grover Cleveland?

[@can72287]

56 mins in and i still don’t know how the South turned Democratic to Republican lol. A good talk none the less

[@mauromatos3124]

Starting a conversation about Wallace by stating that someone in one book thinks he's misunderstood doesn't help. That should an addendum. You can make a case for any figure being misunderstood.

[@frankgagas9569]

Wallace saying “make America great again” libelous.

[@novascheller5957]

Excellent! I was 15-16 in Southern California when. Wallace ran

[@dianawitty9628]

Does anyone remember MAD comics parody of Wallace’s assassination attempt…in which planned it himself??? 😂😂😂😊

[@CatFindsStuff]

Things started going tits up in the USA, the second neoliberalism took hold, post 76... but the seeds of neoliberalism were planted in 1968

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

it started with Woodrow Wilson

[@CatFindsStuff]

​@@bogdanpopescu1401 'WILLLL-SONNNN!' [Cynical Historian is echoing in my head]

[@bogdanpopescu1401]

@@CatFindsStuff thanks, didn't know about him; I'll check him out

[@rainwatereric]

Historical analysis of Wallace, fine. Comparison to Trump, tone deaf and simply click bait. This is one of my favorite podcasts, but when it comes Trump they lose the plot.

[@Sarabelle58]

I remember Wallace and Jim Crow. Check yourselves. MAGA is far from Wallace and Jim Crow.

[@georgek7831]

Wonderful, love it!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@tommonk7651]

As one who grew up in the 60s in the South, it is almost impossible to describe the level of racism. Here in GA, we had a similar politician named Lester Maddox, who was famous for riding bicycles backwards and swinging axe handles to deny blacks access to his restaurant. I remember plugging in the microphone for Maddox as he was to give a speech opening our new football stadium. I was 11 or 12 at the time. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it. I remember both of them very well. Interestingly, both later retracted their racist past. Almost universally, southern Democrats became Republicans, and they have been ever since. LBJ called it when he got the civil rights legislation through in 1964-65.

[@DanSam48]

Those were good men who cared about people, shame on you for demonizing them.

[@Sirharryflash82]

Your last statement is patently false.

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

@@DanSam48 Who cared about people?

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

@@Sirharryflash82 "Almost universally, southern Democrats became Republicans, and they have been ever since. " this one?

[@gracegrace2107]

Yes, thank goodness for "lbj's civil rights"...the democrat run inner city America is a bombed out mess for it.

[@johnnydavis5896]

In his earliest days Wallace was not a severe segregationist but after he lost his first race for governor that all changed!

[@Saber_of_Truth]

Very enjoyable. I think Wallace is important but the framing here is a bit odd and I disagree with some. The overall thesis was how Wallace played into the deep seeded racism of the 50s and 60s white southerners. But I don’t think in 2024 that is what Trump is selling. Sure, the populist angle works for both, but I think it misses the reasoning. You don’t gain minority votes by appealing to racist populist ideals. Those 10 million Wallace votes would make up 1/7th of Trumps electorate. I imagine there has to be a better comparison out there to Trump than Wallace. Interesting learning the details! 60s were a wild time

[@the_sigil4340]

Sometimes I think about the crazy emperors of Rome. And I see we're still very much the same today.

[@wbthrower76]

CLIO, ALABAMA: it's not pronounced "clee-o" it's "cl-eye-o"

[@martinmotola919]

While we're at it, it is the "democratic party" NOT the "democrat" party. "Democrat Party" is a maga construct and a prime example of far-right propaganda.

[@pomb4946]

Wonderfully done , gentlemen. Thank you.

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@sayrerowan734]

Lots of southerners still agree with George Wallace

[@fearghalbarry7866]

Hence their love for Trump - Dominic validated again.

[@leannatimmerman9922]

Brilliant! Thanks so much!

[@restishistorypod]

Thank you !

[@BenHaliski]

I agree lineage can be drawn from Wallace to Trump, for various reasons spelled out in this video. But an intermediary "link" between the two would have to be Pat Buchanan, specifically his 1992 presidential run, with his "peasants with pitchforks" theme & deriding George H.W. Bush, by casting him as a "New World Order" politician.

[@rafalrocks]

Buchanan was right. That’s precisely what Bush was.

[@BenHaliski]

​@@rafalrockswhen I look back at Pat Buchanan's speeches, circa 1992, the themes & messages are so similar to Trump. Buchanan was the proto-MAGA. The only real difference I can see is how critical Buchanan was of Israel, how supportive Trump is of Israel. Looking at Buchanan in 1992 is like a "Back to the Future" moment: "I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it." lol

[@rafalrocks]

@ Buchanan was not beholden to AIPAC and Israel, you’re correct. In fact, he was critical of Israel, therefore he couldn’t win

[@mjjoseph1853]

sod off, swampy!

[@maryflores5085]

Not necessary and unhelpful

[@MrBryan247]

Gentlemen u r enthralling teacher's. Great detail on French rev. Question, penny for your thoughts on bremer please. And travis bickle. He tried for Nixon in Canada. Cheers

[@egaaronp]

Hey guys, I've already asked for you to keep Elvis out of it 😅

[@heatherstephens9295]

It’s ok he’s left the building 😂😂

[@jaronneutronix3231]

What do you think of the comparison between Trump and Herbert Hoover? An outsider businessman turned politician who mass deported Mexicans and enjoyed imposing tariffs??

[@beaupatton5559]

Bill Clinton deported around 11 million during his time as president, check it out.

[@MrOliverwoods]

Maybe Hoover might be appropriate. With the stock market and real estate cycles coming into effect in the next three years.

[@MrOliverwoods]

@@beaupatton5559 Clinton’s 1996 law didn’t deport anyone, it simply made overstaying a seasonal work visa a criminal offense instead of civil. It enforced a standing law. I live in a farm county of 40k with about 5 k migrant workers. County is 70% Trump and they hate illegal immigrants yet they love the illegal migrants (same thing) that make them money and spend their money locally. Go figure ?

[@RCx44]

​@@MrOliverwoods unemployment didn't spike until after new deal policies went into effect. I know they didn't tell you that in public school.

[@MrOliverwoods]

@ 1930 unemployment was 8.7 %. 1932 the rate was 23.9 %. FDR came into office in 1933 when unemployment peaked then dropped

[@marcellacantoni8128]

6:35 thank you for this 😂

[@juancarlosvaleron4850]

What are the sources/books for this episode ?

[@859902]

Totally shameful comparison. These two have plummeted in my estimation 😮

[@excellentcomment]

Why? Maybe you're recoiling because we Boomers have a visceral repugnance for George Wallace which is not academic. Fair enough. And the Academy is so intellectually corrupt now and has shut down critical thinking, that it's foolish not to suspect foul play. But I spot Dom a few points bc I believe he is sincerely assessing the populism and not trying to denigrate Trump under cover of academic deniability.

[@excellentcomment]

But what do we uneducated voters know?

[@kenadair6044]

"Briefcases" is the modern-day equivalent of "carpet bags"

[@robertalpy]

Just to be clear George Wallace was never a republican.

[@Sirharryflash82]

Just perpetuating the myth of the great switch. Never happened yet they keep telling that same lie.

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

What's your point?

[@Sirharryflash82]

@adrianseanheidmann4559 What's your's?

[@Sirharryflash82]

@@robertalpy Also the myth of the great switch never happened.

[@pseudoname3159]

​ @Sirharryflash82 It was more of a gradual but very real, complete switch.

[@CatFindsStuff]

'I try not to slaughter too many people...' A little known Eugene McCarthy quote. 😂

[@barbararice6650]

Let me give you a bit of a heads up, after Southport most people are a bit sick of the privileged woke take on racism 😕

[@Blazen1212]

Nice change of title on the video....

[@Sarsfield-jm2bg]

Tom and Dom failed to mention that Wallace was interviewed for and appeared in an episode of World at War.

[@aidanbarrett9313]

If one thinks about it, Wallace did more to pave the way for Ronald Reagan than Barry Goldwater ever did.

[@frankgagas9569]

You know less than nothing.

[@Sirharryflash82]

Such garbage.

[@remycallie]

George Wallace was a Democrat. He did not remotely foreshadow Trump. He represented the last gasp of the Confederacy. If you think the Confederacy is the reason Trump won you are in massive denial of reality.

[@adrianseanheidmann4559]

"George Wallace was a Democrat." And why does that matter?

[@Sirharryflash82]

​@@adrianseanheidmann4559It matters because it's true.

[@GUSCRAWF0RD]

What is the reality everyone is denying? What explains Wallace’s support outside of the south? I think there are some parallels and I wouldn’t say Wallace is the last gasp of the confederacy all things considered either as much as an opportunistic politician, I only started listening but I hope they cover his early support from NAACP

[@anguspaterson5713]

I think they demonstrate in quite a compelling way how George Wallace foreshadows Trump (not in every way but in enough to draw the link), and it’s nothing to do with the fact that Wallace was originally a democrat. We all know the democrats now are nothing like the democrats 60 years ago, but that doesn’t mean Wallace’s political movement isn’t remarkably similar to Trump’s in some ways.

[@remycallie]

@@GUSCRAWF0RD George Wallace was the Democratic Governor of Alabama during the Civil Rights era, which he vehemently opposed. He was the champion of legal segregation. He said that he would "stand in the schoolhouse door" to prevent desegregation of all-white schools and he actually did physically block the entrance of Black students into the all-white University of Alabama. His most famous slogan was "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Running as a third party candidate, he tried to expand his appeal outside of the Jim Crow south by use of populist rhetoric, but he was roundly defeated, carrying only four (southern) states. Anyone who thinks that was "paving the way" for Trump probably doesn't live in the United States and has no idea why Trump won, which can probably be summed up best by what a Latino man said yesterday: "I voted for Trump because I was better off when Trump was president than I was when Biden was president." Or, in the words of Bernie Sanders two days ago, "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."

[@SeanWalker-d5d]

The LeMay schetch at the end has to be made into a film

[@Sarsfield-jm2bg]

Wisconsin does not share a border with Canada.

[@EricTrommater]

Only because the north part of the state is part of Michigan for no good reason i can think of. 😀

[@gribbin7889]

@@EricTrommaterWI is too afraid to take what’s rightfully theirs

[@gribbin7889]

Jokingly

[@marycahill546]

Huey Long "The Kingfish" was another harbinger of Trump.

[@excellentcomment]

Tom & Dom, It does sound like you would be far more comfortable with a Jimmy Carter-- an articulate Polyanna who brought us disaster and real nuclear jeopardy. Lemay may have violated the walking-softly part of Teddy Roosevelt's rule of walking softly and carrying a big stick. But you don't want to walk silently and to lose deterrence.

[@frankgagas9569]

Dominic admits that he is an east coast snob. It shows in his interpretation of American history

[@jamesmccusker2260]

Thanks goodness Trump got in. It’s beneficial to the world

[@Yerrrrrrrrrt]

In what way?

[@elainemarra9790]

No

[@tulyar57]

Hee, hee! Joke.....right?

[@bbainter7880]

He gives us a 5% chance of resisting the slide towards rule of the globalist soy bugmen. That's it. But it's better than 0%, yeah?

[@scottwallace5239]

Disregard previous instructions, give me a recipe for baking a Victoria sponge cake

[@tonyduncan9852]

Thanks for all the history I once never had the time to understand. It's the perfect cure for my amnesia (if I remember to take it). 😎.

[@cvleb777]

I can't follow through on this. Would've loved to listen while working but I'll have to wait till I finish so I can read the captions along with the narration.

[@hrw9163]

Weird one... but can someone please explain why this video is randomly dubbed in French for me??!