pschearer: In 1967 and 1968 there was a hilarious run in “Pogo” with a longhorn steer who looked remarkably like Lyndon Johnson. And the whole 1952 “Pogo For President” campaign can be seen as a swipe at Adlai Stevenson. Also, Mole was based on Pat McCarran, a very racist Democrat.
If we leave aside his attacks on Joe McCarthy (which I think it’s safe to say he would have opposed no matter what party McCarthy had belonged to) I think the fact that the Republicans got lampooned in Pogo more often than the Democrats was because for most of the strip’s original run, the Republicans were in charge either in Congress or the White House. (Or both, in the case of 1953-1955.) The people in charge make more tempting targets.
pschearer: In 1967 and 1968 there was a hilarious run in “Pogo” with a longhorn steer who looked remarkably like Lyndon Johnson. And the whole 1952 “Pogo For President” campaign can be seen as a swipe at Adlai Stevenson. Also, Mole was based on Pat McCarran, a very racist Democrat.
If we leave aside his attacks on Joe McCarthy (which I think it’s safe to say he would have opposed no matter what party McCarthy had belonged to) I think the fact that the Republicans got lampooned in Pogo more often than the Democrats was because for most of the strip’s original run, the Republicans were in charge either in Congress or the White House. (Or both, in the case of 1953-1955.) The people in charge make more tempting targets.