Barry Goldwater - Republican
Henry Jackson - Democratic
Dwight Eisenhower - Republican
Joe McCarthy - Republican
Bob Taft - Republican
Henry Wallace - Republican (he swung back to the right during the Korean War, endorsed Eisenhower twice and Nixon in 1960, after all. Would probably be a moderate Republican today)
George Wallace - Democratic (stayed a Democrat when others didn't, after all)
John F. Kennedy - Democratic
Why would Henry Jackson and George Wallave be a democrat lol and why would Henry Wallace be a republican when he basically ran on a socialist platfrom in 1948
Because Henry Jackson was pretty much the poster child for what the AFL-CIO wanted in a candidate in the 1970s. He was a hawk, yes, but he was also for price controls, universal health insurance, and other social democratic measures. Comparing him to Joe Lieberman is easy enough at first glance but it ignores the fact that Lieberman has always been something of a moderate or centrist, whereas Jackson was a liberal by any stretch of the imagination. Liberalism has only been defined by being less gung-ho about sending American troops to die in foreign countries since the 1980s. Prior to that, the Democratic Party (particularly its liberal wing) were the most enthusiastic backers of military spending and military intervention abroad. Hence Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and (albeit in a modified way) Jimmy Carter, who was far less liberal than any of his predecessors on economic policy questions and was more or less Reagan 1.0 in terms of domestic policy.
Henry Wallace was a businessman who believed in progressive capitalism. He never campaigned on anything close to the socialist programs advocated by the post-war Labour and social democratic governments in Europe (iirc, there was a furious debate at the Progressive Party convention about nationalization of industry, which Wallace flatly opposed. Compare that with Clement Attlee and subsequent Labour governments nationalizing the 'commanding heights' of industry just about every time they got into government) and supported the rights of Communists and others persecuted by the U.S. government on civil liberties grounds, not on the grounds that they were necessarily people the United States should emulate. He rejected overt support from the CP and shifted from being an opponent of Truman to an enthusiastic backer in 1950 with the Korean War. Again, the guy backed Eisenhower twice and then Nixon in 1960, so I think you're really kind of grasping at straws here saying that Wallace, who was raised a Republican and only briefly joined the Democratic Party, would be anything to the left of the Democrats today. Perhaps the Wallace of the late 1940s would be a Democrat, but the Wallace who died in the 1960s would not, because that Wallace had changed his mind on a number of issues and moved rightward.
