In what ways does "the cancer of McGovernism" still infect the Democratic Party?

[BrainGlutton]

@Mr. Moto

Maybe it would have been a nice start in the Clinton administration for the USS John F. Kennedy to not have been routinely and chronically shortchanged on its maintenance, to the point that the costs to fix her are now prohibitive, and she probably will have to be decommissioned.

Link.

So what?

[BrainGlutton]

@RTFirefly

The Dems really aren’t all that good about opposing a war that the President wants to fight; you’re right about that. But if there’s a Dem in the White House, s/he’s going to initiate a lot less military craziness than a GOP President would.

OTOH, remember who got us into 'Nam . . . back in them carefree pre-McGovernism days . . .

[RTFirefly]

@BrainGlutton

OTOH, remember who got us into 'Nam . . . back in them carefree pre-McGovernism days . . .

Good point! McGovern at least got us past that extreme of craziness. Or maybe it was just that the southern Dems of that era, always more hawkish than the party as a whole, died off or became Republicans.