Republican Party

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/4/2020
  

  The Never Trumpers Have Already Won

  by Samuel Moyn

  Never Trump's historic role turns out to be not among Republicans so far, but within a Democratic Party whose members have chosen to convert enemies into friends, setting up a guardrail against the capture of their party by the left.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  8/3/2020
  

  Reaganland Is the Riveting Conclusion to a Story That Still Isn’t Over (Review)

  "Rick Perlstein’s epic series shows political history and cultural history cannot be disentangled."

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  7/28/2020
  

  The Impact of White Evangelicals on U.S. Politics (Audio)

  Historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez argues in "Jesus and John Wayne" that contemporary Evangelical political views are a product of the group's embrace of patriarchal authority and power, a situation that will not end when Trump leaves office. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/28/2020
  

  As John Lewis was Honored in Alabama, a State GOP Legislator Celebrated a KKK Leader’s Birthday

  The lawmaker — who is a chaplain for the Prattville Dragoons, a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans — attributed the intense blowback he’s facing to “anti-Southern sentiment” amid the country’s ongoing racial reckoning.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/26/2020
  

  Ronald Reagan Foundation Asks RNC to Stop Using Reagan's Likeness for a Trump Fundraiser

  The RNC had printed a commemorative coin without receiving permission to use the 40th President’s likeness, said the Reagan Foundation's chief marketing officer.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Who Opened the Door to Trumpism? David Frum's "Trumpocalypse" Reviewed

  by David O'Connor

  Through his long analysis of Trump’s follies, Frum never develops his contention that twenty-first-century conservatism helped open the door for Trump. Without a full accounting, his political mea culpa is hollow and fails to offer guidance on how to avoid mistakes in the future.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/7/2020
  

  When American Politics Turned Toxic (Review)

  Julian Zelizer argues that Newt Gingrich made the media unwitting accomplices to his partisan crusade.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/7/2020
  

  The Origins of the Republican Party’s Plutocratic Populism

  by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

  With concentrated wealth has come unprecedented investments in politics by billionaire donors and business organizations, mostly on the right.

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• Madison’s Sorrow Goes Beyond Pompeo's Dinners

  by Kevin C. O'Leary

  We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”

  by Bruce Bartlett

  The growing importance of racially conservative white Republicans in the western states after World War II helped present southern whites with a viable alternative to the Democratic Party. 

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• SOURCE: JStor Daily
  6/29/2020
  

  Abolitionist “Wide Awakes” Were Woke Before “Woke”

  What the "Wide Awakes" helped create was focus in muddled political times, a whipping up of the enthusiasm of other voters: “By the end of 1860, the nation was wide awake.”

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  6/24/2020
  

  The Republican Choice: How a Party Spent Decades Making Itself White

  Talk of “election integrity” by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  6/22/2020
  

  Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?

  The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/17/2020
  

  The GOP Missed Its Chance To Embrace Martin Luther King Jr.

  by Tim Galsworthy

  Invoking a sanitized and selective memory of Dr. King enables politicians and voters to trumpet order and exhibit faux outrage at disorder, rather than face up to endemic racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2020
  

  Geraldo Cadava On The Past And Future Of Hispanic Republicans

  An interview with historian Geraldo Cadava, a scholar of Latinx history, borderlands, and immigration.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6/1/2020
  

  The Memo: Trump Lags in Polls as Crises Press

  Historian Alan Lichtman, who predicted a Trump victory in 2016, says things look bad for his reelection prospects. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/27/2020
  

  President Trump’s Demand for a Full Arena Reveals that Party Conventions Still Matter

  by Laura Ellyn Smith

  The president's insistence on holding an in-person convention reflects not only his own love of large crowds but the significance of conventions as political events that let the voting public see the stakes of the election.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  4/30/2020
  

  Did Lincoln Take his Cues From Congress?

  Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/2020
  

  An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

  Professors James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg's recent book identifies the Reagan Revolution as the moment the Republican Party rejected environmental regulation and made further protective legislation politically unthinkable for a generation.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/12/2020
  

  How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

  by Jane Mayer

  Finally, someone who knows him very well told me, “Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn’t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn’t.”