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Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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    1. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      After the war, when Andrew Johnson tried to resurrect the pre-war world, minus the slavery that had supported the rich southerners he hated, and Ds signed on, the GOP passed the 14th and 15th Amendments, providing for black male citizenship and guaranteeing black male voting. /11pic.twitter.com/46YVlQud1b

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    2. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      If only we could stop right there, all the threads you read about the glorious GOP would be true. (I hate the space limit here. There's so much more amazing stuff and nuance I'm having to skip.) But on we must go.... /12

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    3. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      Former Confederates hated black voting, but organizing as the Ku Klux Klan had backfired. So they started to say they weren't racists... they were fiscally conservative. They complained that poor blacks elected leaders who promised schools, roads, hospitals, and so on. /13pic.twitter.com/im9SCN33Zh

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    4. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      In 1871, in South Carolina, which had a majority-black legislature, Democrats organized a "Taxpayer's Convention" to complain that their taxes were being redistributed to buy stuff for poor blacks. It was "socialism," they said, + the charge caught fire. From the NY Tribune: /14pic.twitter.com/f1p3oScvBv

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    5. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      Fears of poor voters worked in the North, too, esp. in NYC, where the GOP hated immigrant voters who tended to support Democrats. In 1871, workers in Paris had formed the Commune and taken over gov't; GOP worried about the same in the US. One warned: /15pic.twitter.com/a8oQ52cTZ7

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    6. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      In 1872, a GOP faction wanting to replace U.S. Grant sided with the Ds to argue that protecting black rights was communism. To win reelection, Grant needed to cozy up to Wall Street, which would give him the money to offset the anti-Grant newspapers. As one financier said: /16pic.twitter.com/Nv7sU8DYDK

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    7. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      Grant won, and the GOP began to interpret their pro-ordinary man ideology as pro-prosperity, which increasingly meant passing laws to protect business. This meant tariffs, above all, for they protected businesses from foreign competition. But protecting labor was "socialism." /17pic.twitter.com/w1lFMu0Suo

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    8. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      When voters elected D Grover Cleveland in 1884 to curb the power of business, GOP freaked out. In 1882, Grant's former right hand man claimed that the 14th A was designed to protect business; in 1886, SCOTUS agreed. /18pic.twitter.com/ZBHIYDQg7R

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    9. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      In 1888, GOP invented modern campaign financing (!), warned workers to vote GOP, then when GOP candidate Benjamin Harrison lost anyway, switched votes in the Electoral College to put him into the White House. They believed D Cleveland would destroy America, so they had to. /18pic.twitter.com/W1R06R2IlK

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    10. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      To guarantee they would never again lose control of the government, GOP under Harrison added six new states: ND, SD, MT, WY, ID, and WA, skewing the Electoral College to this day and leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. They fudged the 1890 census to make it look legit. /19pic.twitter.com/kWKQgYUEih

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      Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

      When Cleveland won again in 1892 and got control of Congress GOP warned that communists had taken over. They deliberately crashed the economy ten days before his inauguration. The Panic of 1893 put GOP back in control. /20pic.twitter.com/MzbTeP4neM

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        2. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

          They raised tariffs again, then took over islands that had sugar: Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines, and so on, without permitting the people there to become citizens, making unincorporated territories and non-citizen Nationals. Now the GOP sounded like the Slave Power. /21pic.twitter.com/zihoQfmaCi

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        3. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 19 Jul 2019

          So now the GOP sucked, right? And we could stop here... but not so fast. We must go on. (Later, though. I have to run out for awhile. This is really cool stuff, isn't it?) /22

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        4. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          By the 1900s, the GOP worked for big business, crushing ordinary farmers and workers. But younger men hated that plutocrats had taken over the nation. They recalled Lincoln's insistence that society was a web, and that gov't must enable those at the bottom to rise. /23pic.twitter.com/avQYsDEf3B

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        5. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          As early as 1884, Robert LaFollette (WI), Henry Cabot Lodge (MA) and Theodore Roosevelt (NY) wanted to curb business. Traditionally, "liberals" demanded small government to protect individualism; they said it would take a big gov't (so the meaning of "liberalism" flipped). /24pic.twitter.com/plmlzUJRSV

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        6. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          When TR became president, he tried to clean up cities, protect workers, regulate business, + protect public lands. Financier J. P. Morgan flipped out when TR went after Standard Oil Trust. But TR said the government must stop coddling the rich + give everyone a Square Deal. /25pic.twitter.com/HRvsTvEAqg

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        7. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          By 1912, all 4 candidates ran as progressives. But TR and William H. Taft split the GOP, + D. Woodrow Wilson won. GOP was furious, esp. when Ds instantly cut tariffs + imposed taxes instead. WWI means unity, but after, Lodge says WWs wants socialist One-World Gov't. /26

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        8. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          1917 Bolshevik Revolution lets old GOPers again claim activist government was socialism, a ruse to redistribute tax money to black people and immigrants, who were ruining American traditions. Call to end regulation, progressivism. /27pic.twitter.com/n5v1ZXdsc8

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        9. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          1920 was a landslide for GOP Warren Harding, and the GOP moved to put business back in charge of government. It cut wartime taxes and put business in charge of gov't bureaus. GOP leaders believed that businessmen alone understood the economy. Naysayers must be socialists. /28pic.twitter.com/hfDU4N0e5B

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        10. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          Harding and then Calvin Coolidge turned gov't over to business. It seemed to work. The economy boomed- until it didn't. In October 1929, the bubble burst. GOP had owned the boom; now it owned the bust. President Herbert Hoover tried to brave it out, but voters turned on GOP. /29pic.twitter.com/oDN3kOitQl

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        11. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          GOP said big gov't expenses, not their own policies, caused the Depression, and called for more cuts. Hoover said gov't intervention was anti-American socialism. But investigations showed major corruption on Wall Street, and Americans WANTED work, but couldn't find any. /30pic.twitter.com/bHAyzwDTKt

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        12. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 20 Jul 2019

          When voters elected D FDR in 1932, Hoover was so sure America was through he wouldn't meet with FDR until a White House usher insisted. He kept FDR waiting so long, FDR fell down (he was paralyzed from polio). (This still makes me mad.) At Inauguration, Hoover glowered. /31pic.twitter.com/W9ikQHcfKT

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        13. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          FDR's New Deal regulated business + finance, protected basic social welfare, + promoted infrastructure. Even most GOP recognized their old system was a disaster, and backed active gov't. Led by NY lawyer Thomas Dewey, the new moderates were "me too" Rs, said angry Hoover men. /32pic.twitter.com/xfJEWe8Xug

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        14. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          WWII finished what the New Deal started. Gov't spending made the economy boom, and folks loved it. Also, showing that democracy could beat fascism made the US start to enforce equality. The GOP was often ahead of the Ds on this issue, b/c Ds had to get southern white votes. /33pic.twitter.com/9YQfpi7J42

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        15. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          The Hoover faction, led now by William H. Taft's son Senator Robert Taft (OH), still hated the New Deal's active gov't, and set out to erase it. They were so convinced Ams hated this "socialism" they assumed they would toss Ds out. In 1948 some did up headlines too soon. /34pic.twitter.com/ticXpDuKqw

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        16. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          In 1949, Communists took over China + Taft folks accused D's of helping. In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy accused the State Dept of harboring communists. GOP Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (ME) warned against GOP fascism, but Taft wing liked it. No more "me too" Republicanism! /35pic.twitter.com/KTc6OCT5SL

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        17. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          Taft Rs wanted to kill all gov't programs. In 1950, communist NKorea invaded SK, and US leaders thought that would let USSR invade weakened Europe. North American Treaty Organization seemed crucial, but Taft wanted to kill it. WWII hero Dwight Eisenhower was horrified. /36pic.twitter.com/Rm8gfZlRyV

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        18. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          Ike ran for 1952 GOP nomination, + won w the help of eastern moderates (esp. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. of MA). Fistfights at the convention: Taft men blamed the "Eastern Establishment" for stealing the nomination. Moderates had won, but Taft was irate and his men vowed revenge. /37pic.twitter.com/OoyE6VnSYt

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        19. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          Esp. when Ike governed with a GOP version of the New Deal, called the "Middle Way." He launched the largest public works project in US history- the interstate highway system- tried to expand health care and welfare, and tried to stop communism by funding endangered countries. /38pic.twitter.com/eEALYc8uYX

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        20. Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)‏Verified account @HC_Richardson 22 Jul 2019

          Taft men howled... esp. AZ Senator Barry Goldwater, who was born rich but insisted he was a self-made Westerner. He hated regulation of his business as well as taxes, and said Ike had heard "the siren song of socialism." (Top marginal tax rate under GOP Ike was 91%.) /39pic.twitter.com/DRwiB8Etrm

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