The History of Presidential Losers by Mike Duncan
- Thread starter PraiseVectron
- Start date
- Post-1900
- Location
- NYC
Barry Goldwater remains (at least nominally) one of the main ideological forefathers of the modern GOP, so I think he wouldn't mind his legacy too much
Going back the past few elections, and excluding HRC, I feel most bad for Gore. The dude came within the tiniest sliver of winning the Presidency, won the most votes, and if the deck weren't stacked against him in Florida and the Supreme Court he probably would have won (Florida disenfranchised a huge number of Democratic votes thanks to their felony disenfranchisement, and there's a lot of very shady stuff that went down around the potential recounts). And he watched the guy he lost to fuck up both America and the world spectacularly, with Bush and his inner circle almost singlehandedly ending the "end of history" era of post cold-war prosperity
Going back the past few elections, and excluding HRC, I feel most bad for Gore. The dude came within the tiniest sliver of winning the Presidency, won the most votes, and if the deck weren't stacked against him in Florida and the Supreme Court he probably would have won (Florida disenfranchised a huge number of Democratic votes thanks to their felony disenfranchisement, and there's a lot of very shady stuff that went down around the potential recounts). And he watched the guy he lost to fuck up both America and the world spectacularly, with Bush and his inner circle almost singlehandedly ending the "end of history" era of post cold-war prosperity
Barry Goldwater made a devil's bargain he intensely regretted by the end of his life and he absolutely and utterly hated the direction Reagan took the GoP and how fundamentalist religion was being injected into his party. He broke with the republicans before he died.