susansiens on Nostr: I'm reading nasty stuff about the DNC from the 1940s! What interests me is that my ...

I'm reading nasty stuff about the DNC from the 1940s! What interests me is that my parents -- both radicals -- never talked to me about Truman administration corruption (so bad he dropped out of a '52 primary race). My mother said Stevenson wasn't elected due to Americans' "anti-intellectualism," but Dark Quadrant puts it down to the incredible corruption Truman reigned over and Howard Fast put it down to Stevenson's reluctance to end the war in Korea.

Admittedly I was born in '53 and wasn't around during the Truman administration, but I would have thought my mother knew about it. Dark Quadrant's author said most histories of the Truman era don't mention all the scandals (and they were legion).