"The Great Commoner" was what many called him and people fucking loved the guy. Invented the idea of actually going around the country and talking with citizens. Also one of his presidential runs scared capitalists so much they funded the most expensive presidential election campaign ever of William McKinley, was something like 1% of GDP or something insane like that. For me, that alone is proof that he had something good going.
From what I understand, Bryan was a theologically conservative literalist, but still had other reasons for opposing evolutionary theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan#Anti-evolution_activism
"Bryan opposed Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection for two reasons. First, he believed that what he considered a materialistic account of the descent of man (and all life) through evolution was directly contrary to the Biblical creation account. Second, he considered Darwinism as applied to society (social Darwinism) to be a great evil force in the world, promoting hatred and conflicts and inhibiting upward social and economic mobility of the poor and oppressed."
He was in some ways reactionary (and definitely not a socialist), but was very far from the worst politician of his time.
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"The Great Commoner" was what many called him and people fucking loved the guy. Invented the idea of actually going around the country and talking with citizens. Also one of his presidential runs scared capitalists so much they funded the most expensive presidential election campaign ever of William McKinley, was something like 1% of GDP or something insane like that. For me, that alone is proof that he had something good going.
yeah he was the democrats nominee 3 separate times! thats wild
From what I understand, Bryan was a theologically conservative literalist, but still had other reasons for opposing evolutionary theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jennings_Bryan#Anti-evolution_activism "Bryan opposed Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection for two reasons. First, he believed that what he considered a materialistic account of the descent of man (and all life) through evolution was directly contrary to the Biblical creation account. Second, he considered Darwinism as applied to society (social Darwinism) to be a great evil force in the world, promoting hatred and conflicts and inhibiting upward social and economic mobility of the poor and oppressed."
He was in some ways reactionary (and definitely not a socialist), but was very far from the worst politician of his time.
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