Best Democratic Almost-President: George McGovern or Hubert Humphrey?

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Humphrey, and it's not really close.  I was certainly pro-McGovern in 1972, and knowing what I have recently learned, Nixon was a traitor for interfering in the peace process in 1968, but McGovern and his McGovernites ruined the Democratic Party in ways that reverberate even today.

All our politics are about social issues now.  LGBT stuff.  Abortion.  Church and State issues.  Affirmative Action.  Racial quotas.  Immigration.  All of this is designed to take our eyes of the issue of the gross concentration of wealth in the top 1% of persons.  And it was the McGovernites that started this.  Their circus of a 1972 convention made liberalism disreputable by making it appear irresponsible.  They alienated organized labor in a way that ended up crippling the labor movement while ramping up globalism, in which today's liberals have partnered with establishment Republicans.  The McGovernites did their part to get all discussion of economic inequality dismissed as "class warfare".  The Democratic party is still reeling from the specific way about the way McGovern effectively destroyed the National Democratic Party.  It's been put back together in a way that is unable to seriously take the needed actions to maintain the middle class, but, hey, we have same-sex marriage in some states.  Somehow, I don't see this as a great tradeoff.