Source:BJ82– 1940 Republican Party presidential nominee Wendell Willkie.

“Wendell Willkie is speaking in this 1940 spot against Roosevelt as the Republican nomination.”

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Wendell Willkie in about three minutes (and that’s it and all the time he needed) did what Michael Dukakis in an entire presidential-campaign in 1988 or John Kerry in an entire presidential-campaign in 2004 didn’t ,which is layout for the most part not all of his politics why he’s a Liberal.

Yes, Wendell Willkie  a Classical Liberal Republican, not a Democrat, at the time because he saw Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal moving the Democratic Party in a socialist direction. Something that he didn’t want to be part of. This idea that you solve problems in society by government, especially the Federal Government, spending a lot of other people’s money for them.

In the 1930s and 40s, the Republican Party was a center-right party, that did have a center-right progressive faction in it. But they weren’t Henry Wallace Democratic Socialists. They had Robert Taft Classical Conservatives in the Midwest and other parts of the country and they had Thomas Dewey Liberal Republicans in the Northeast.

The Liberals were basically John F. Kennedy Liberal Democrats, because they believed in liberal democracy and that liberty was worth defending. That’s who Wendell Willkie was politically. The so-called Neoconservatives today, were once JFK Liberal Democrats. That’s Wendell’s political philosophy.