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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Republicans are different. Unlike the Whigs, unlike the Federalists, unlike the Democrats, Republicans were explicitly founded around a set of ideas rather than just an agenda or a collection of interest groups. Those ideas have both defined & disciplined the party for 160 years.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Nobody who knows the history of the Republican Party would claim that it has always been 100% faithful to its founding principles, or that it has been immune to catering to its constituent groups or pandering to baser voter sentiment. But the gravitational force of ideas matters.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      The Democratic Party has veered all over the place in terms of ideology & which voters' resentments & rent-seeking it is catering to at any given time or place. But its history as a collection of interest groups nakedly pursuing their own narrow agendas is the real continuity.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Republican history is, by contrast, far more consistent over time back to the 1850s - in outlook, culture, and temperament as well as ideas - than is typically acknowledged. What is portrayed as Republican change is often simply the contrast presented by Democratic shifts.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      The challenge in the Trump era is preserving the things that kept the Republican Party constrained by, even inspired by, its founding principles for a century and a half. Elements like Trump were there from the start, but the party's never been led by them.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Anybody who tells you that Lincoln's party would not have tolerated Know-Nothing nativists in its ranks is historically illiterate. The party forged a majority by doing literally that. Lincoln despised the Know-Nothings, but kept his mouth shut, had an ex-Know-Nothing as his AG.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      The early Republicans believed in the Lockean right to keep the fruits of one's own labors, & that the Founding principles applied to all Americans. They were also American nationalists, Christian moralists, & riven by ferocious internal quarrels over immigration & nativism.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Lincoln was partly concern-trolling in claiming the label of "conservative," which in his era was more associated with European throne-and-altar reactionaries. But he was sincere in arguing that Burkean fealty to the tried & familiar was in the Republican bloodstream from Day 1.

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      And Lincoln was an originalist. His critique of Dred Scott was not that Taney shouldn't have looked to original meaning in deciding who could be a citizen, but that Taney had his history wrong: black men had fought in the Revolution, voted to ratify the Constitution.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019
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      From Lincoln's 1857 speech on Dred Scott:pic.twitter.com/WpeopL19cI

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