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发帖数: 43471 | 1 Me-too Republicans
In the 1930s and 1940s, Me-too Republicans described those running on a
platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or
moderating philosophical differences.[5][6] An example is two-time
presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey, who ran against the popular Franklin
D. Roosevelt and his successor Harry Truman. Dewey did not oppose Roosevelt
's New Deal programs altogether, but merely campaigned on the promise that
Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly.
Let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we
believe all these things, we believe in social-security, we believe in work
for the unemployed, we believe in saving homes—cross our hearts and hope
to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the
president's administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us.
— President and Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a
Democratic audience in New York, September 1936[7][8]
From 1936 to 1976, the more centrist members of the Republican Party
frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as Alf Landon,
Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford. The mainstream of the Republican Party was generally supportive
of the New Deal. In the 1950s, conservatives such as Robert A. Taft and
Barry Goldwater, who rallied against "me-too Republicans",[9] were
considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP; serious
consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative
party in coalition with the "states' rights" Democrats of the South.[10] |
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