This was in a 1944 speech to party loyalists, six-time Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Norman Thomas, made this comment: "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened." He then made a very profound statement when he said. "I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."