01-10-2023 | Why America can't have a successful third party (hint: it's about Congress, not the White House). And a deep dive into the mother of all third parties: The American Independent Party, whose presidential candidate was George C. Wallace of Alabama. More at http://proleftpod.com.  

Links for this episode: 

• The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics -- by Dan T. Carter, February 1, 2000
  https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Politics_of_Rage.html?id=K3Z5AAAAMAAJ
• George Wallace in Wisconsin: The Divisive Campaigns That Shaped a Civil Rights – by Ben Hubing, February 14, 2022
  https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467151375
• George Wallace: American Populist – January 21, 1995 by Stephan Lesher, 1995
  https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/800063.George_Wallace 
• 2000 George Wallace PBS Documentary "Setting The Woods On Fire"
  https://alvt.videotrust.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=2058
• Lurleen Wallace in The Encyclopedia of Alabama.
  http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1662
• Lurleen Wallace, Mental Health Pioneer.
  https://www.enewscourier.com/news/local_news/lurleen-wallace-a-mental-health-pioneer-in-alabama/article_aa896611-fd09-552c-a371-2f8ef2b18cc1.html

YouTube Episode 685: https://youtu.be/2iHPeBc-Ljs

George Wallace, Third Parties, No Fair Remembering Stuff, American Independent Party, #CornfieldResistance, #BothSidesDont, #TheLeftRemembers, #BurnTheLifeboats, #GoPostalUnions!, politics, progressive, media, history

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