Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read
I don’t see this as anything new or controversial. Power brokers have been picking their favorites for quite some time now. Take a look at the 1944 Democratic National Convention and what happened to Henry Wallace, whom FDR wanted as his vice-president because Wallace was one of those rare outstanding politicians who actually cared about people. Robert Hannegan, the DNC chairman at the time, said he wanted his tombstone to read “Here lies the man who stopped Henry Wallace from becoming President of the United States.” Hannegan got his way, and the world got Japan’s favorite war criminal: Harry Truman. (The Nuremberg Trials didn’t apply to you if you were the one with the rope.)
