How would Doc Brown vote?

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

I’m thinking he’d be a consistent New Deal Democrat. He’s a scientist who came of age in the 1930s and probably likes massive government spending on science and research.

[One Term Floridian]

Aside from that actor Ronald Reagan, I’d figure he voted straight ticket Dem

[dw93]

1952: Eisenhower
1956: Eisenhower
1960: Kennedy
1964: Johnson
1968: Nixon
1972: Nixon
1976: Carter
1980: Reagan
1984: Reagan
1988: Bush
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Gore
2004: Kerry
2008: Obama
2012: Obama
2016: Clinton
2020: Biden

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Too bad Biff Tannen won. The Biff from 1985 in BTTF 2 was actually modeled on Trump.

[Agonized-Statism]

Always seemed to have a rebel streak- committed insurance fraud by burning down his family mansion for the money, lived alone and didn't conform to the expectations of suburbia as an adult in the '50s, agreed to make Libyan nationalists a bomb with stolen nuclear material, stole it back for his own experiment, romanticized the wild west. I picture him as a disappointed idealist who shifted from some kind of a progressive to a (less conservative) Heinleinian libertarian. Probably a Democrat at the presidential level whose first vote was for Roosevelt in 1932 and who stopped voting altogether in 1948 out of disgust with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the general direction of post-war society.

IIRC he said his parents changed their name from "von Braun" during WWI, so I'm sure he started out with some skepticism of fervent nationalism.