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| Donald Trump (left) and Garfield Webster (right) are both Republicans but barely have anything in common |
Garfield Lucas Webster, the 3rd Prime Minister of Chawosauria back in the 1910s, was a Republican since he immigrated to the United States in 1883. But Webster was no conservative. Webster was a progressive who supported Theodore Roosevelt's liberal approach to big business, conservation, and workers' rights. Trump is the opposite of Webster, and that would infuriate Webster if he was still alive.
Garfield Webster if he were still alive would be considered to be a Democrat today but he called himself a Republican, a "Roosevelt Republican". Not a Conservative Republican. Back in the old days, Donald Trump's behavior would not be tolerated not even by Republicans at the time, and Webster was no different from these old school Republicans, whom many of them switched over to the Democratic Party decades after Webster's death in 1955. We would say Webster was a populist just like Trump, but Webster saw the rise of Hitler, So would Webster support Trump? Ask his still-surviving daughter, Dorothy Webster-McClellan.
Dorothy Webster-McClellan on her father's politics
Dorothy as of 2020 is 90-years-old and she said her father would hate the Republican Party, the party he came to love and support when he immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom in 1883, although Webster was never born in Britain, he lived in Britain in his later-early life. Dorothy witnessed her father's political ambitions being passed to her elder brother Garfield II, although Garfield II never inherited his father's partisan affiliation, Garfield II became a Democrat when Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for President in 1932, and their father Garfield Webster also supported FDR despite being a Republican, which is strong proof that Webster and the GOP do not share the same DNA.
Dorothy remembers her father encouraging her to support the Democratic Party instead of HIS PARTY. Signs that Webster was breaking away from the Republican Party, and another sign that Webster really was transitioning from the GOP was that allowed his son Garfield II to be a Democrat because Garfield Sr also supported F.D. Roosevelt, while still calling himself a Republican -at least for now.
When Webster was diagnosed with brain cancer in 1954, the 94-year-old Webster campaigned for the Democratic Party in the 1954 midterm elections, being part of Republicans who are supporting Democratic candidates for Congress, and when the Democrats did retook Congress in 1954, Webster was politically attracted to Estes Kefauver for President, and declared that he were to survive and he sees Kefauver nominated either for President or Vice President by the Democratic Party, he would officially declare himself a Democrat for the rest of his life.
But Webster died on Christmas morning in 1955 of brain cancer at the age of 95 before the 1956 election season began, and Estes Kefauver was defeated in the primaries and was nomianted Vice President at the 1956 Democratic National Convention and as Adlai Stevenson's running mate. Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver's ticket was defeated by the incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a landslide victory. After the election, Dorothy, who knew her father very well as a result of being his favorite child, was asked by her brother Garfield II: "What would Dad do if he was here this tragedy?", Dorothy replied: "As a Catholic, he would've kept his faith strong".
Since her brothers' deaths in 2018 and 2019, Dorothy was the only person to speak for her father against a Republican Party who, in her mind, spits on her father's memory, and Dorothy is angry at the Republicans, and her husband, Zachery, although never got along with Garfield Webster, commented how much "lack of respect" the GOP has for his father-in-law's memory.
Zachery Brinton McClellan
Zachery B. McClellan is Dorothy's husband, and Garfield Webster's son-in-law. Webster and McClellan did not had a good relationship, but McClellan still had respect for Webster as his father-in-law and the beloved father of his one true love of his life. Zachery on Trump's presidency and the state of the Republican Party said: "If Mr. Webster was here right now and he sees his old party as the apocalyptic mess they are, it would've broken him, totally broken his heart so bad to see that the party he came to love when he was an Immigrant from England, is putting itself into the same eternal damnation to History the Democratic Party have headed to after the Civil War".
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