I do not remember the Wilson era but I do remember some of FDR, all of Truman and all of LBJ.
I am trying to distinguish between today's leaders / stalwarts and the apolitical FDR, yellow-dog Democrat rank-and-file.
Democrat patriots filled the ranks of the "Greatest Generation," Korean, and Viet Nam war troops as much as Republicans.
They even served as Reagan Democrats.
They do not yet fully recognize, it seems to me, that their grandfathers and fathers Democratic Party ain't no more.
Why alienate them as they begin to "wake up?" Keep them separate from the bad guys, I say.
The Dems may have been "demagogue socialists since at least the 1890s" but they were our demagogue socialists.
I'm no where close to a historian but except for the most radical I do not believe that the Dems were 'Blame American First' until the Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble took over the Party.
It's still here and still socialist since the late 19th century! What a great "tradition". It's just even worse now.
90% tax brackets and playing footsie with the Soviet Union sure was "patriotic".