If Democrats crave return to 'normalcy,' why are their candidates so radical?
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
May 08, 2019
3 minutes
In the 1920 presidential election, Warren Harding won in a landslide by promising a "Return to Normalcy." Today's Democrats would be wise to make that same pledge for 2020. They probably won't, however, which is why President Trump might get re-elected.
Harding's concept of normalcy has been ridiculed and reviled by progressives and liberal historians for 100 years. Some falsely claim it was merely a call for a return to the isolationism of the prewar years. But Harding wasn't just
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