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Episode 1: Hello Grover Cleveland!

The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast

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How Would You Sell Grover Cleveland to a Left-Leaning American?

How would you sell Grover Cleveland to a modern left-leaning American? He doesn't graft cleanly onto certainly onto modern progressivism but I do think that there are aspects of his career and personality that would probably be appealing to your median left-of-center voter. There's a long line throughout his career if you can see this kind of there are times when he actually sounds sort of like a quite modern sort of left-of the center thinker on some of these economic issues just because he is so twisted into knots by the idea of the corporate community getting these kinds of favors from federal government.

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