Which Party would these people be for today

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I think a better way is to compare them to modern politicians.  In this case, I'll use Senators/Reprsentatives

Barry Goldwater = Rand Paul
Henry Scoop Jackson = Dianne Feinstein
Eisenhower = Mark Kirk or Scott Rigell
Joe McCarthy = Ted Cruz (very, very easy to see this connection) or Allen West
Robert Taft = Walter Jones
George Wallace = Richard Shelby or Jeff Sessions
JFK = Seth Moulton

lol the faux-moderate republican representative who is a car salesman

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George Wallace — Republican (Endorsed Bob Dole over Clinton)
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Source?

Just googled it and found it in an old newspaper.

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Barry Goldwater - Republican Tea Party
Henry Jackson - Democratic
Dwight Eisenhower - Republican
Joe McCarthy - Republican
Bob Taft - Republican Tea Party (views are much more in line with the Paulite wing of the party)
Henry Wallace - Democratic
George Wallace - Democratic
John F. Kennedy - Republican Tea Party (Nixon was the center-left candidate in 1960 and JFK's tax policies were the forerunner to Reganonomics that the Tea Party love)

I'll have what he's having.

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Did no one read the link that Turkisblau posted? Wallace endorsed Dole in 1995, a year before the election. He also said that Alabama was turning Republican because Clinton was "so liberal" and that he voted for Bush in '92. I don't see anything to indicate he was still calling himself a Democrat in later years; his son switched parties after '94 and went on to an active, if frequently unsuccessful, career in state Republican politics. Given his populist leanings, Wallace today would almost certainly be a Tea Party backer.

His populist leanings - especially on fiscal issues - are a perfect example of why he WOULDN'T be in the Tea Party.

? The Tea Party are very much right-wing populists.

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Opposition on the right to the Wall Street bailout was formative to the Tea Party.  That lends itself to populism. The Tea Party sees itself in opposition to the elites and establishment in both parties.

Yeah, I'm really not understanding what is so confusing about this. The Tea Party is by far the most successful popular movement in the past couple years.