"Still, next time someone complains that Democrats have no clear platform or leader, they might counter with the 1948 platform and the example set by Harry Truman. Even in the absence of Democratic Party unity (there were competing presidential candidacies from ex-Democrats on the left and the right), that election year did, after all, produce the most audacious upset in modern American politics until you-know-who and you-know-what."
Ed Kilgore at New York writes that there is "more symmetry between the domestic policy views and concerns of Democrats 70 years ago and today than one might imagine."
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