There was a lot of stuff in Bouie's column I agreed with, obviously. I took issue with his conclusions, which ran far ahead of his evidence.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @CarlPaulus and
Couple of points: the Walker-Moley partakes was exceedingly inapt—one was a subaltern activist writer, the other was a top presidential aide (who then totally rejected the New Deal). And the last graf was ad hominem bs—lol, JB hates religion and midwestern whites. And your
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and
depiction of the Republican Party the. Was highly selective and designed to make it seem far less statist and, briefly but crucially, radical than it really was.
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Replying to @yeselson @CarlPaulus and
This is another day's argument I've had many times, but "statist" conflates wartime policies with Republican visions for how to run the nation in peacetime, & frontier-specific policies with GOP vision for the settled parts of the country.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @CarlPaulus and
So, in other words, GOP utopian theories which were not consonant with lived experience, should be privileged over how it actually *did* govern. Moreover, Republican held states in Reconstruction South were, in some measure, harbingers if social democracy.
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Replying to @yeselson @baseballcrank and
@HC_Richardson argues that there were two competing strains within the GOP that especially opened up and competed in the 1870s. Not just "ideals v. reality" but different views of the state and its relationship to industrial capitalism.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AstorAaron @yeselson and
My longstanding view is that the party was then, & always has remained, fusionist between the classical liberal & libertarian strains & the conservative/nationalist/Christian strains. Barone gets how this has operated better than maybe anyone.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @yeselson and
Where would Thaddeus Stevens fit into that model?
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Stevens was a humorless moral crusader of the sort that would later appear in the party as temperance & pro-life advocates - he'd have been at home with Rick Santorum - but he was also an industrialist who made bank on war contracts.
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