In that sense, the fact that racial appeals - which, again, some Republicans in the South have engaged in - typically had to be 'coded' when used by Republicans, where the very same people had done so openly as Democrats, reflects the gravitational pull of the two party styles.
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The politics of racial & other tribal resentments (ethnic, religious, etc) never goes away, & Democrats who claim today that their party is immune now to such things are typically lying to themselves. But the historic principles & styles of the parties affect how those manifest.
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Republicans who want to constrain the role of resentments & identity politics within their coalition can, to this day, draw on a long, rich GOP tradition of neutral, classical-liberal principles. Democrats, by contrast, can only offer age-old cynicism that such principles exist.
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Randy Holcombe
Sorry, the graph includes SC in the Deep South line, NC in the Border South line. Forgot to add those to the Tweet.https://twitter.com/beachboyhhi/status/1152303487830691840 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
I see this thread has resumed. This is wrong, Dred Scott was decided in 1857, *after* the 1856 election & inauguration of James Buchanan. The chronology is important, given Buchanan's lobbying behind the scenes in advance of his inauguralhttps://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152261965718458368 …
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_RichardsonIn 1856, the pro-slavery SCOTUS decided Dred Scott v Sandford, which said that Congress could not stop slavery from moving west, and once there, it must always be protected. Once slave states were a majority, slave owners would make slavery national. American freedom would end./4 pic.twitter.com/O2PvBk6BlJShow this thread2 replies 2 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
This, OTOH, is exactly the kind of Lincoln 'right to rise' rhetoric I'm talking about, which remains central to Republican ideology about self-reliance & upward mobility to this day.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152261973389840390 …
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_RichardsonIn response, IL lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who had joined the GOP by then, outlined the new party's ideology. Society moved forward not through the actions of a few rich men, but through the actions of ordinary men who worked and innovated. /7 pic.twitter.com/PgcpJtE0YOShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
This is also wrong. Harrison did not win the popular vote in 1888, and all sorts of shady stuff happened in voting in the 1870s-1880s (Cleveland relied on disenfranchising blacks in the South), but he won enough states to carry the Electoral College.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152288804977467392 …
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_RichardsonIn 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. /18 pic.twitter.com/W1R06R2IlKShow this thread1 reply 3 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
OK, now that this thread has moved on to "Congressional Republicans made the Panic of 1893 happen on purpose to sabotage Grover Cleveland," I'm gonna move on to better uses of my time.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152288810102861824 …
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_RichardsonWhen 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. /20 pic.twitter.com/MzbTeP4neMShow this thread5 replies 2 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Joseph Karnilowicz
Yes. Leadership absolutely matters. Strong leaders can get people to follow, but even Lincoln understood that you also have to listen & not just impose elite ideas on the common man. Offer better leadership to today's Republican voters.https://twitter.com/JosephConKarne/status/1152286406267604992 …
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Joseph Karnilowicz @JosephConKarneReplying to @baseballcrankThats a long winded way of saying: Republicans follow leaders—leaders which are independent but not seperate of the geographical/social concerns of its constituents. Lincoln lead the GOP in searching for its “Better Angels” & the “Right to rise”—which Lincoln saw as hand in hand4 replies 3 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
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I’ll have to disagree to an extent on listening to the common man—he did impose elite ideas such as abolition, 1st federal income tax and denying habeas corpus without Congressional consent (Ex Parte Merryman) he did all this by appealing to the common mans sensibility and reason
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Lincoln brought the public around very gradually to abolition. The income tax & habeas were strictly wartime measures.
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Again disagree slightly—do you happen to have in mind an example of Lincoln listening to the common man? From my perspective he just did a lot more to get the common man to come around to his way vs listening.
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For another example: His lone (1847-1849) term in the House of Representatives, he refused to seek re-election because his constituents kept disagreeing with what he had to say.
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