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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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.
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.
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.
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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