George Wallace was a populist. He'd run as whatever he thought would win him elections, & pander to the resentments of whomever he needed to win. And Joe Biden, whose choice of friends & allies has run from James Eastland to Al Sharpton, is not so different.https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1263531040519356417 …
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Right. I have no idea if apologies and attempts at penance were sincere in his later years. Maybe the shooting or just the passage of time stirred a genuine conversion. Or maybe he was totally amoral and never believed in anything except manipulating populism to win elections.
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@baseballcrank don't get it confused - a populist with a message of racial resentment would only fit in one party today. - Show replies
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