Republican Party

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  When It Comes to Republican Defectors, Current Crisis Is No Watergate

  As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president’s own party support them.

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• 5/9/19
  

  The Loss of Republican Principle

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy are handling Trump far different than their counterparts during Watergate. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  Why Trump Won’t Stop Talking About Ilhan Omar

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president is following a Republican playbook that is now nearly two decades old.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker Magazine
  3/6/19
  

  Five Reasons Why Republicans Won’t Abandon Trump Like They Ditched Nixon

  by Ed Kilgore

  There are five reasons a broader Republican backlash like the one that helped push Nixon out of office won’t happen if Mueller’s suggestions of law-breaking are limited to obstruction of justice.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/4/19
  

  Grant’s First Tomb

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Ulysses S. Grant, inaugurated as president 150 years ago today, missed a chance to reconstruct the South economically as well as politically.

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• 3/10/19
  

  The Most Alarming Argument in Jill Lepore's These Truths

  by Walter G. Moss

  How technology has destablized our world and why there's still hope. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/19
  

  History will mark how many Republicans shy from Trump’s extremism

  by E.J. Dionne Jr.

  It’s not too much to say that history will notice how many Republicans choose to separate themselves from Trump’s extremism.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-27-18
  

  No, the GOP wasn't the party of civil rights in the 1960s

  by Kevin Kruse

  "If you have to go back to the 1860s or even the 1960s to claim the "party of civil rights" mantle, you're clearly grasping at straws."

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• SOURCE: US News and World Report
  1-3-17
  

  Republicans Return to Their Roots

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Trump's stances on foreign policy and trade have a long history within the Republican Party.

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• 4-1-16
  

  Abraham Lincoln vs. the Republican Party

  by John C. Waugh

  Lincoln’s Republican party has dramatically changed since it was his. If there is a Trump as its presidential nominee in 2016, would Lincoln still be in it?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-25-14
  

  Rand Paul Doesn't Stand a Chance

  by Michael Kazin

  Libertarianism may be on the rise, but it has no real chance of taking over the Republican Party, much less the nation.

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• 2-24-14
  

  Inside the Republican War on Women

  by Ruth Rosen

  Mike Huckabee thinks women "need to be liberated from their libidos."

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  2-5-14
  

  Republicans Poised to Take Senate Even Though Americans Reject Their Platform

  by Juan Cole

  Symptoms of a broken democracy.

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• 1-7-14
  

  The Republican Party's "Female Trouble"

  by Ruth Rosen

  As the 2014 midterm elections loom on the horizon, American Republicans fear they may lose a sizable female vote.

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• 12-9-13
  

  The GOP's Mandela Problem

  by Juan Cole

  Rick Santorum compares apartheid to Obamacare, Rush Limbaugh complains about all of Mandela's media attention, and Dick Cheney is STILL defending his vote against sanctioning the apartheid government.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-2-13
  

  The G.O.P.'s racism tweet

  “Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism.”

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• 12-2-13
  

  The Battle for Ohio's Middle Class

  by John T. McNay

  Labor's 2011 victory in Ohio offers a blueprint for the future.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11-13-13
  

  Getting Down to Big Business: A Conservative American Romance

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Wall Street" used to be a derisive term amongst conservatives.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11-5-13
  

  The Decline of the Tea Party

  by Bruce Bartlett

  There are signs of a pushback.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10-27-13
  

  The Tea Party is Going Down. Dysfunction is Not.

  by John B. Judis

  Right-wing populism could hobble America for decades.