This author is really confused, since the Vietnam war was foreign policy, and protest against it were protests against FP, how in the world could any of it be associated with "domestic policy"?
Good grief, AR.....do you think at all about what you quote?
If you weren't around or are uninformed, in 1972 the "New Left" (radical leftist associated with splinter groups of CPUS like the SDS) had entered the Democrat tent and gained control of the party. This is when liberal democrats who opposed communist expansion in the world started to leave the Democrat Party and were welcomed by the conservative base in the GOP because these liberals wanted to continue fighting the Cold War while the new liberals (New Left) or those hiding behind the liberal label in the Democrat Party wanted to surrender and not continue the Cold War.
One of the last true liberals to leave the Democrat Party and come on board with the GOP and becoming part of the Reagan administration was Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Every politico remembers Jean Kirkpatrick's speech during the 1984 GOP Convention, especially San Francisco liberals.
1984 Jeane Kirkpatrick
The speech:
>" Thank you very much for that warm welcome.
Thank you for inviting me.
This is the first Republican Convention I have ever attended.
I am grateful that you should invite me, a lifelong Democrat. On the other hand, I realize that you are inviting many lifelong Democrats to join this common cause.
I want to begin tonight by quoting the speech of the president whom I very greatly admire, Harry Truman, who once said to the Congress:
"The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details."
He continued:
"The elements of our strength are many. They include our democratic government, our economic system, our great natural resources. But, the basic source of our strength is spiritual. We believe in the dignity of man."
That's the way Democratic presidents and presidential candidates used to talk about America.
These were the men who developed NATO, who developed the Marshall Plan, who devised the Alliance for Progress.
They were not afraid to be resolute nor ashamed to speak of America as a great nation. They didn't doubt that we must be strong enough to protect ourselves and to help others.
They didn't imagine that America should depend for its very survival on the promises of its adversaries.
They happily assumed the responsibilities of freedom.
I am not alone in noticing that the San Francisco Democrats took a very different approach..."<
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