{"id":310,"date":"2026-06-13T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2026-06-13T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:07:09","slug":"toward-a-new-beginning-lessons-and-parallels-from-the-gop-rout-of-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Toward a New Beginning\u2019: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article>\n<header>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Activism<\/li>\n<li>November 5, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>\u2018Toward a New Beginning\u2019: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946<\/h1>\n<h1>\u2018Toward a New Beginning\u2019: Lessons and Parallels From the GOP Rout of 1946<\/h1>\n<h2>\n<p>\u201cLet us not fool ourselves in this hour of appraisal\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<time>November 5, 2014<\/time><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Republicans are poised to open the 114th Congress in January with a firmer hold on power than they have had since 1946. CNN projects that after all the ballots are counted, the GOP will end up with 246 seats, the same number it had after the first post\u2013World War II elections, when President Harry Truman\u2019s Democrats lost both Houses of Congress\u2014which they had held since Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s tidal-wave election thirteen years earlier.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>If the results of the 2014 election recall those of 1946, it is also true that the lessons the left took away from the earlier drubbing can perhaps help us understand what happened yesterday\u2014and where to go from here.<\/p>\n<p>In an editorial published immediately after the November 5, 1946, results came in, <em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s editor  that the loss of Congress would allow the left to recognize \u201chow much was vitiated from the start\u2026by the necessity of working through a machine so cynically concerned with power and perquisites as the Democratic Party\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We can trace as if on a military map the retreat of the machine Democrats from advance positions which had become politically exposed into comfortable rearguard posts, sheltered behind the euphemistic camouflage of \u201cbi-partisanship.\u201d The Roosevelt era died bit by bit. Now that it has been officially interred, despite the nominal survival of Mr. Truman, progressives are free to abandon both pretense and illusions and get to work laying the foundation for a new beginning.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats would have to look beyond Roosevelt\u2019s program, beyond the New Deal, if they wanted to regain national support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let us not fool ourselves in this hour of appraisal. The routed progressive forces in America are not equipped with a program or even prepared to unite on any program. They have emerged from the election reduced in strength, splintered and dispersed\u2026. No common program; no organizational unity; no effective leadership. Defeated, they must start form scratch, for the fight they have just lost was only the start of a much tougher one ahead\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>This was to be expected. Neither the reorientation of ideas demanded by the period we face nor the integration of forces on the left can be hastily improvised. Both will mean hard work by individuals and groups all over the country\u2026In the pages of <em>The Nation<\/em> we shall analyze the practical as well as the theoretical problems that confront democratic Americans\u2026. Attached to no man or party, we can comment without constraint upon issues and leaders, programs, parties, and strategies. Out of such discussions, in which we warmly invite our readers to join, we shall formulate as the weeks pass <em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s program for a new American progressive movement.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<p><span><span>&#8220;swipe left below to view more authors&#8221;<\/span>Swipe \u2192<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Today a Welfare Trillionaire Is Born<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Today a Welfare Trillionaire Is Born<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nCorbin Trent <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Americans Are Reaching a Financial Breaking Point<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Americans Are Reaching a Financial Breaking Point<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nKali Holloway <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>Vengeance Is the Only Thing Trump Has Left<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Vengeance Is the Only Thing Trump Has Left<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nChris Lehmann <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>\n<span>In Britain, an Election That Could Mark the Beginning of Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s End<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                In Britain, an Election That Could Mark the Beginning of Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s End<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>\nStanley Reed <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>It has been widely speculated and in some cases reported that President Obama will seek to compromise with the new Republican Congress on issues like free trade and tax reductions\u2014deals previously blocked by Senate Democrats. Following the 1946 election, <em>The Nation<\/em>\u2019s Washington correspondent Tris Coffin (later founder of <em>The Washington Spectator<\/em>)  that a similar pivot was likely for President Truman:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>During the last few days his friends have been trying to draw a new picture of Harry Truman. They are picturing a ruggedly independent man with no strings attached to him, a man who will act clearly and boldly for the good of the nation, let the chips call where they may. With or without a new Truman there will certainly be changes in downtown Washington. The exodus of men and women who worked under Roosevelt will be accelerated. None of them want to stay for the investigations by Republican-dominated Congressional committees and the lean budgets they must work with.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Coffin went on to relate a fascinating little episode, totally forgotten today, in which Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas\u2014he of scholarship fame\u2014suggested that Truman appoint a Republican secretary of state and then resign. Since Truman had succeeded to the presidency upon Roosevelt\u2019s death, the vice presidency was vacant; the unelected Republican secretary of state would then become president. Otherwise, Coffin quoted Fulbright explaining, \u201ceach party will try to blacken the other\u2026. The long-term effect will be to create the impression that democratic processes are bad and all its officials are blackguards. This will not do the Democratic system any good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both the White House and Republicans, Coffin noted, were \u201cwildly unenthusiastic\u201d about the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Another similarity between 2014 and 1946 is in the prevalence of small parties in New York state, where, a <em>Nation <\/em>editorial noted, \u201cthe minority parties of the left ran up impressive totals.\u201d Today, we have the Working Families Party and the Greens battling it out for the third slot on the ballot; in 1946, it was the American Labor Party, the Communists and the Liberal Party. The Communists then, as the Greens today, \u201cenjoyed a boost to almost twice their usual modest return,\u201d <em>The Nation<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>In an editorial titled \u201c,\u201d <em>The Nation <\/em>wondered just how much could be read into the results of the midterm elections, devastating though they were for the Democratic Party:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It was exceedingly shrewd of the Republicans to focus last week\u2019s election on the question \u201cHad Enough?\u201d The returns indicate beyond doubt that the voters <em>have<\/em> had enough\u2014but because of the magnificently calculated vagueness of the question nobody can say just what it is that has sated them. Have they had enough jobs, enough protection against the ups and downs of the business cycle, enough security for their bank savings, enough cheap electric power and land reclamation, enough freedom to organize in labor unions, enough cooperation with other nations in the promotion of world peace? Or have they only had enough of weariness after a long and bitter war, of vexations that are an inevitable part of the transition to peace, of that sagging of the spirit in high places and in low that marks the end of a monumental national effort?<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans are in power now and free to interpret the results as they choose. But in spite of the magnitude of their victory, they will be taking a long chance if they ignore the emotional reaction of a tired people in favor of a strictly political interpretation; if, in short, they flatly assume that they have a mandate to destroy the achievements of the Roosevelt era. They won control of Congress not because the country longed for Republicanism\u2014whatever that might be\u2014but because in almost every state in the country a vote for the G.O.P. was the only way in which a hazy discontent could be expressed.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the president, the editorial concluded, Truman faced a choice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If he uses the veto, and the threat of the veto, with shrewdness and courage, he may get better results from an opposition Congress than from an undisciplined mob of legislators only theoretically controlled by his own party. He has the choice of taking a strong lead, with the hope of preserving the prestige of his office and his party, or of allowing the government to wallow for two years in uncertainty\u2014with sure defeat at the end of the road and something like national paralysis en route.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Curious about how we covered something? 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