Republican Party

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2020
  

  Trump is Testing Democracy. Nine out of 10 Senior Elected Republicans are Failing

  by Max Boot

  Civil servants have largely put their loyalty to the process of democracy above party. The same cannot be said for Republican elected officials. The Post's columnist argues that even if democracy survives, the party's reputation shouldn't. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Journal
  11/12/2020
  

  The GOP Test

  by Sean Wilentz

  If Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and their respective caucuses persist, they will have tainted their party far beyond what Trump already has.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/11/2020
  

  Was Reagan a Precursor to Trump? A New Documentary Says Yes

  Reagan biographer Lou Cannon and historian Rick Perlstein contend the series misconstrues Reagan's politics by portraying him as a dog-whistling race baiter (Cannon says it's flat wrong, Perlstein says it's more complicated than that). 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2020
  

  ‘The Reagans’ Review: Making America Great Again, Round 1

  "The series provides a steady succession of parallels between Reagan and Donald J. Trump, none labeled as such but all difficult to miss."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/6/2020
  

  What Are Parties For?

  by Jan-Werner Müller

  The Republican Party has outsourced the work of policymaking to a handful of billionaire-funded think tanks, leading to an incoherent platform of plutocratic populism and a party structure that cannot debate and advance new ideas, says a top scholar of comparative politics. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/2020
  

  By Humoring Trump, The GOP Is Enabling Authoritarianism

  by Max Boot

  "One senior Republican official told The Post: 'What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change.' What’s the downside? Only the undermining of our democracy."

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• 11/10/2020
  

  Is this a Slow-Moving Coup?

  by HNN Staff

  As Trump refuses to concede, few Republicans have repudiated his baseless charges of election fraud. Are they indulging a sore loser or starting a coup? 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  11/4/2020
  

  Republicans Will Learn Nothing from a Trump Defeat

  "In the increasingly likely event of a Joe Biden victory, please let us not tell each other now that we are on our way to 'healing'.”

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/4/2020
  

  A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath

  by Tom Nichols

  By picking Trump again, those voters are showing that they are just like him: angry, spoiled, racially resentful, aggrieved, and willing to die rather than ever admit that they were wrong.

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• SOURCE: Esoteric Political History
  11/3/2020
  

  When Black Voters Went Blue

  Leah Wright Rigeur discusses the process by which Black voters shifted from loyal Republicans to Democrats. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/1/2020
  

  My Party is Destroying Itself on the Altar of Trump

  by Benjamin L. Ginsberg

  "Proof of systematic fraud has become the Loch Ness Monster of the Republican Party. People have spent a lot of time looking for it, but it doesn’t exist."

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Conservatism Needs a Hard Pruning of Trumpism

  by Jeff Bloodworth

  If there is to be a healthy conservative presence in the Republican Party and the American political system, supporters and enablers of Donald Trump's abuses will need to be cleared out. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/27/2020
  

  How Democrats Can Learn Hardball From the Republicans of 1861

  The Antebellum slave power suppressed democracy and abolitionism through control of the institutions of American government, from the Senate to the courts to the postal service. Only after secession and the start of civil war did the Republican Party fight back successfully with hardball tactics.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
  10/26/2020
  

  If only Richard Nixon had Listened to Jackie Robinson — The GOP Might be Doing Better than Trump Today

  by Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick

  Despite Jackie Robinson's intercession, Richard Nixon's moment of indecision in 1960 allowed Jack Kennedy to connect his campaign with the cause of Martin Luther King and civil rights. 

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Where Ross Douthat Goes Wrong

  by Jim Sleeper

  Jim Sleeper argues that Times columnist Ross Douthat's brand of conservatism fixates on a supposed liberal cultural domination while ignoring the right's long path to consolidating power through the law, institutions and the threat of physical force. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/23/2020
  

  Republicans Have a History of Weaponizing 'Socialism.' But Do They Understand what it Is?

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  “Socialism,” Harry Truman argued in 1952, “is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.”

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  10/16/2020
  

  A Look At The Long History Of Latino Republicans

  Historian Geraldo Cadava discusses why many Latinos have voted for Republicans and why many will again. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/20/2020
  

  Republicans: The New Confederacy

  by David W. Blight

  "There is no Republican majority in America, except on election days. It all depends on who votes and who is allowed to vote."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/16/2020
  

  A Campaign of Voter Subtraction: Trump’s Republican Party Must Subtract Votes in Order to Survive

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The greatest myth of the 2016 election is that the polls got the election wrong. What if the polls did not get it wrong? What if the Republican game of voter subtraction got it right?

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/14/2020
  

  Stop Othering Latinos

  by Geraldo L. Cadava

  When politicians see us as more than voters, we may give them our votes.