Commentary
My title is my subject: What happened to the Democratic Party?
Well, nothing good.
That isn’t a full answer, but it’s an accurate one.
The party of Scoop Jackson, of JFK and FDR and Harry Truman, the party, that is to say, whose patriotism and seriousness no one could dispute is gone.
Sometime in the 1960s, hitching its star to the welfare industrial complex and various public sector unions, it became the regime party.
Gradually, its only interests were special interests.
Then, in the Obama and post-Obama years, it went mad.
No longer was it a party of politics….