If Woodrow Wilson were alive today, which party would he be affiliated with?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Discuss.

I, personally, think he wouldn't be a fan of either party.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

He would have been a Joe Lieberman Democrat.

[Deus Naturae]

Depends what his ambitions are. Wilson may have been racist, but he wasn't an idiot. If he wanted to get back into politics, I think he'd recognize that racial segregation is a lost cause and just rejoin the Democrats, who he'd undoubtedly agree with on most other issues.

[SWE]

He's certainly a Democrat, at least on domestic issues. He'd end up being one of those hawk Democrats, like Feinstein

[Meursault]

I know this post will go ignored like  many others I make, but I wish we'd bear in mind that Wilson was the [/i]least economically interventionist[/i] candidate in 1912. His 'New Freedom' platform of industrial regulation was pitched as a pro-market alternative to either Taft's record of trust-busting (more trusts broken up than under TR) or to the direct nationalizations of industry proposed under the Progressive Party's 'New Nationalism'.

[Lief 🗽]

Depends what his views on abortion are.

[Meursault]

Again, Wilson is rightly read as the most economically liberal (in the European sense of the term) candidate in 1912. As President he broke up far fewer monopolies than Republican Taft (no President has busted as many trusts as Taft). He did not propose, as Theo Roosevelt did, whole-hog nationalization of businesses. His regulatory regime was relaxed, and often Congressionally-imposed. And business wanted the Federal Reserve. Why, then, does everybody assume he'd be on the left end of a contemporary spectrum?

[H. Ross Peron]

I voted Republican but of a fairly centrist on domestic issues neocon type (one has to remember that a decade ago, neocons advocated the expansion of Medicare and Social Security.)

[Meursault]

^ Nailed it. But Wilson would not even necessarily support something like Medicare. His progressivism was structural, not egalitarian. He was an authoritarian modernizer, not a welfare Statist.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I know this post will go ignored like  many others I make, but I wish we'd bear in mind that Wilson was the [/i]least economically interventionist[/i] candidate in 1912. His 'New Freedom' platform of industrial regulation was pitched as a pro-market alternative to either Taft's record of trust-busting (more trusts broken up than under TR) or to the direct nationalizations of industry proposed under the Progressive Party's 'New Nationalism'.

New Freedom was pitched as a relatively pro-market approach to trust-busting.  The industrialists at this time generally supported protectionist policies so they went with Taft.  Labor supported free trade and tended to see Wilson's New Freedom and it's call for decentralized economic power and the break-up of monopolies as better than TR's proposals for tightly regulated monopolies. 

It's possible to see some anti-corporatist tea party populist types responding to some of Wilson's campaigning, but the tea party would find enough other reason to hate him.  He'd probably fit in better with the Democratic party.

[windjammer]

Democrat obviously, he was a great president. And there is a difference between being an interventionnist and being a bellicist like Georges Bush.

[MATTROSE94]

He's certainly a Democrat, at least on domestic issues. He'd end up being one of those hawk Democrats, like Feinstein

[Mechaman]

^ Nailed it. But Wilson would not even necessarily support something like Medicare. His progressivism was structural, not egalitarian. He was an authoritarian modernizer, not a welfare Statist.

You could say the same thing about Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and yes dare I say it Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Really, I think it's safe to say that NONE of our presidents were very egalitarian, just saying.

[Tieteobserver]

He'd be like a centrist Democrat or a neocon Republican.

[Peter the Lefty]

He'd fit in as a Mike Huckabee/Rick Santorum Republican.  Ultra-conservative on all issues, but when he moderates, he does so on economic matters.  (Whoever said this about Santorum, thank you.)

[BaconBacon96]

He would have been a Joe Lieberman Democrat.

Something like this.

[Person Man]

He would have been a Joe Lieberman Democrat.

Something like this.

Well, he's even D-NJ and Lieberman is D-CT.

It would be a good idea for a timeline to have historic figure be modern politicians that were born in the 20th century and are politicians in the 21st.

[MurrayBannerman]

He'd fit in as a Mike Huckabee/Rick Santorum Republican.  Ultra-conservative on all issues, but when he moderates, he does so on economic matters.  (Whoever said this about Santorum, thank you.)

I tend to agree with this. There's a range he could fit into though with certain issues like abortion being a litmus test today, at least in some cases, to finding party identification when they didn't exist as issues in the early 1900's.

[ElectionsGuy]

He would have been a Joe Lieberman Democrat.

[PiMp DaDdy FitzGerald]

His pathological hatred of Black people would have made him a staunch Republican.

[Person Man]

His pathological hatred of Black people would have made him a staunch Republican.

I guess this question is different between whether Woodrow Wilson was born in the 1850s and was 160 years old now or whether he was born in the 1950s and is the same age now as he was when he was president in the 1910s.

[Rockefeller GOP]

His pathological hatred of Black people would have made him a staunch Republican.

Nice hack response.  He'd be a Democrat.  Period.  Being a racist doesn't even in the slightest bit prohibit someone from being in your party, pal.  Sorry.

[Maistre]

What does he think about gay marriage?

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Obviously he doesn't mesh well with today's liberal Democrats, but I think it's pretty clear that he'd be a Democrat. He was a huge proponent of the League of Nations, and so would be likely be a big UN supporter, not exactly a typical Republican position.  Paulites would hate him for establishing the fed.

He raised the top marginal income tax rate from 0% to 73%.

[SWE]

His pathological hatred of Black people would have made him a staunch Republican.

Nice hack response.  He'd be a Democrat.  Period.  Being a racist doesn't even in the slightest bit prohibit someone from being in your party, pal.  Sorry.

This is correct,  there are plenty of racist Democrats, Mr. Pollo being a fantastic example.