So Elizabeth Warren was a Republican up until 1995.

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125. And, indeed, Reagan's victory was what facilitated take over of the Dem Party by DLCers.

It also gave us Super Delegates, able to override primary voters. That had been attempted by undemocratic Democrats after McGovern but failed. However, they did reverse McGovern's reforms, instituted to make the Dem Party more democratic (small d), during the time McGovern was head of the Party.

Interestingly, most or all of the DLC founding members that wiki lists were Southern males who ran for the Presidency or whose names had been linked to the Presidency.

The exceptions were Hillary, who obviously is not male, but was "Southern by marriage and residency" and Lieberman, who is not Southern. And, as we know, the South had been going red in Presidentials since passage of the Civil Rights Act under Johnson. So, my suspicion is that they changed the Party to improve their own chances at winning a Presidential, esp. carrying their own state in a Presidential (which McGovern had failed to do).

Gore still couldn't carry his home state in a Presidential, but that indeed may have had something to do with Monica and Bush's promise to restore dignity to the Oval Office (or whatever the hell Bush's dog whistle for "no bjs in the Oval Office" was in 2000.)