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Do the names Alfred Landon, Wendell Wilkie, and Thomas Dewey mean anything to you? They are the names of three successive Republican candidates for president from the year 1936 to 1948. All were nominated by the GOP, and all three lost to Democratic counterparts.

The first half of the twentieth century was a critical time in American history; we suffered two world wars and a psychologically devastatingly depression. That’s right, the Great Depression’s only real hurt was psychological, but that doesn’t mean it was any less real. I think any doctor would agree, psychological pain can far outlast anything physical. The effects can persist for years. In this case, they will go on for decades or centuries even, or until our decline—whichever comes first. Consistent Republican party losses in the competition for the nation’s highest office from 1936 to 1948 portended a key shift in American ideals, and the onset of a socialistic pandemic.

The Democratic monopoly of the Executive branch actually began a few years prior to Landon’s 1936 run when Franklin Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover in 1933. Spanning a period of 15 years, Democrats maintained a firm grasp on American ideological thought and by innocent ignorance or demagoguery or more likely a mixture of both, constructed the frame of the cancerous liberal platform that shelters the modern Democratic party.

A general lack of faith in industrialism and self-reliance with the hopelessness of the Great Depression is what provided liberalism a clear segue to power. A battered and indignant American public was in no mood for the do-it-yourself harangues of impoverished orphan turned multi-millionaire Herbert Hoover. Despite (or in light of) his own rags-to-riches story, he maintained a strict conservative view on social government intervention, and he was beat handily after his first term. Hands were out for government hand-outs, and FDR delivered on his promise.

Socialism is like the lottery and an array of other vices—it’s like the sheepdog after it’s tasted the sheep’s blood, because in a very real sense, socialism sucks on the blood of the nation—taking nourishment from self-inflicted lacerations. America’s penchant for political “blood” will only sharpen. To many, the Reagan Revolution of the 1980’s marked a political revival of conservatism in America. The presidencies of G.H. Bush, Clinton, and G.W. Bush and the current electoral race indicate that, if anything, Reagan’s unction lacked the divine blessing.