Wallace, and I ain't apologizing for it.
What was the main draw to Wallace? I'm assuming it's not his economically populist campaign or his desire to get out of Vietnam ... just love that racism?
Wasn't Wallace a hawk in regards to Vietnam?
I feel like that's pretty rumored to be true now a days, but I remember reading that he said he had a strict 90-day window before all troops were withdrawn if the war wasn't winnable (and most Americans weren't seeing it as a winnable war by 1968).
That's pretty Dovish compared to Johnson and Scoop Jackson. So he wasn't in the hawkish wing of the Democratic party. That's the thing about George Wallace. I really don't believe that he actually believed a damn word he said. The segregation, the race-baiting, the economic populism, I think that was all just political opportunism.
When it boils down to it, I don't think Wallace was a racist. A despicable opportunist who used racism to gain power, yes. But a through and through white supremacist? I have a hard time believing that.
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