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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

      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_Richardson
      In 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/PgcpJtE0YO
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      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_Richardson
      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. /18 pic.twitter.com/W1R06R2IlK
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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      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_Richardson
      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. /20 pic.twitter.com/MzbTeP4neM
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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      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 …

      Dan McLaughlin added,

      Joseph Karnilowicz @JosephConKarne
      Replying to @baseballcrank
      Thats 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 hand
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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Craig Hammond

      The early Republicans were not doctrinaire libertarians, but the Homestead Act was exemplary of Lincoln's Lockean self-reliance ideal: give a man a plot of wilderness, let him reclaim it from nature by sweat of his brow & keep the fruits of his labors.https://twitter.com/JohnCraiHammond/status/1152354742468775938 …

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      Craig Hammond @CraigHPGH
      Replying to @baseballcrank
      The early GOP i)gave land away for free, much of it to immigrants ii)created the system of free, public higher education in the United States. 21st century equivalents are mindlessly dismissed by the GOP as "socialistic."
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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Also, the land grant colleges established under the Morrill Act were funded by the sale of federal land, not perpetual taxpayer exactions, and their focus was on practical education in agriculture.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted

      Polygamy was a new innovation - it had never been legal in America, nor sanctioned by Christian churches. 19th century Republicans were resisting an effort to redefine marriage. Lincoln argued as well that the Founders had intended slavery to die off https://twitter.com/higgins_ke/status/1152372896351825920 …

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

      BTW, this is still truehttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1024340373018210304 …

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      Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
      (Aside: anybody who talks about Richard Nixon having a "Southern Strategy" & doesn't acknowledge FDR's Southern Strategy is either ignorant or selling you propaganda.)
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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted

      The idea that this is a killer rejoinder misses the point. Lincoln himself stood for leniency & charity towards the defeated Confederates. Grant befriended some of them. Lincoln would likely have said, "let them have their monuments" & focused on policy. https://twitter.com/ASFleischman/status/1153701921099849728 …

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

      The hard question of Reconstruction, which has never been satisfactorily answered, is how you reconciled Lincoln's view of leniency towards the vanquished white South with vigorous protection of the freed black South.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

      But neither Lincoln nor Grant ever started from the position that you should not want to appeal to white Southerners - as a partisan matter, as a matter of personal friendship, as a matter of the American nation. Very much the contrary.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          And yet, much of the "Lincoln's Republicans were not like this" shtick takes as its premise that Lincoln's party would not have wanted *those* people in its ranks.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          Now, where you see the greatest continuity between the GOP of 1856, 1896, 1924, 1956, 1980, 2004, & 2014, is in the Midwest, the real heart of the original party & of revived importance since 2010. Many of the Midwestern Republicans of the past two decades fit that bill.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          Now, as I've noted upthread & many places elsewhere, maintaining the Lincoln-Grant-McKinley-Coolidge-Eisenhower-Reagan line of the party is, in fact, a real challenge in the Age of Trump. The party has had factions like Trump before, but never as leader of the party.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          But it would be useful for historian-written columns like this one to grapple with more of the history & in particular the philosophy of the GOP over time, & not reduce both the Lincoln & Trump era parties to caricature.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/opinion/lincoln-republican-party-trump.html …

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