it was hot, around 90 degrees. and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage, from the podium at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000. but the police actually said it was bigger. police said it was 100,000 people. , again this was in 1936. so if you want to address to that forward for sure, it was $1. about if you want to adjust that to account for how big the population of the country was at the time compared to now, hundred thousand people than convey to the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of like 250 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd. particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician nude william lembke? he was a congressman, a candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support of will
the guy pulling first for the republican nomination for president was just indicted on 34 felonies, and tomorrow is the day that the civil suit against him starts, relating to the rape claims. and i mean, that is just like, today. a snapshot of how things are going with the republican party and their effort to win over the american people to the popularity of their ideas. and it has been like that for a while. and in contrast, the conservative media business, and the conservative movement, they have their act together when you compare them to the republican party. for example, they are very successful, both at what they try to do and in pure business terms. they are slick, they are powerful, at least they have been. and they really are responsible for the success of the political bright in this country, in a way you can t credit to the work of the republican party itself. because when the republican