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« on: July 07, 2016, 10:55:59 PM »

If William Jennings Bryan were alive and kicking today, what party would he register with? What factions would he be a member? What issues would he take up?

I'd like to think he'd be a populist, federalist Democrat like myself, but I'd like to hear the opinions and views of others.
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2016, 11:35:14 PM »

I agree.  What drove him was his economic populism, IMO; he just simply had other cultural views that were influenced by his time period and home region.

When you get right down to the true spirit of what he was fighting for, he has more in common with Bernie Sanders than he does with Mike Huckabee, even if there are some "social" views on the surface that make it murky for some.

Yeah that sounds about right. His lamentations about the economic elite do sound a lot like Sander's going on about the "top one puh-cent"
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