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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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 …
Black voters have almost completely abandoned the GOP. Did they change and the party didn’t?
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