Republican Party

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• Madison’s Sorrow Goes Beyond Pompeo's Dinners

  by Kevin C. O'Leary

  We are stuck with two major parties and when one party abandons the broad liberal-conservative center, the system stops working.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6/29/2020
  

  The Western Origins of the “Southern Strategy”

  by Bruce Bartlett

  The growing importance of racially conservative white Republicans in the western states after World War II helped present southern whites with a viable alternative to the Democratic Party. 

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• SOURCE: JStor Daily
  6/29/2020
  

  Abolitionist “Wide Awakes” Were Woke Before “Woke”

  What the "Wide Awakes" helped create was focus in muddled political times, a whipping up of the enthusiasm of other voters: “By the end of 1860, the nation was wide awake.”

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  6/24/2020
  

  The Republican Choice: How a Party Spent Decades Making Itself White

  Talk of “election integrity” by the Grand Old Party is inextricably intertwined with its modern history of pandering to racist elements of American life; any attempt to disentangle these stories and tell them separately is disingenuous, even if it angers partisans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  6/22/2020
  

  Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?

  The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/17/2020
  

  The GOP Missed Its Chance To Embrace Martin Luther King Jr.

  by Tim Galsworthy

  Invoking a sanitized and selective memory of Dr. King enables politicians and voters to trumpet order and exhibit faux outrage at disorder, rather than face up to endemic racial inequalities.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  6/15/2020
  

  Geraldo Cadava On The Past And Future Of Hispanic Republicans

  An interview with historian Geraldo Cadava, a scholar of Latinx history, borderlands, and immigration.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6/1/2020
  

  The Memo: Trump Lags in Polls as Crises Press

  Historian Alan Lichtman, who predicted a Trump victory in 2016, says things look bad for his reelection prospects. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/27/2020
  

  President Trump’s Demand for a Full Arena Reveals that Party Conventions Still Matter

  by Laura Ellyn Smith

  The president's insistence on holding an in-person convention reflects not only his own love of large crowds but the significance of conventions as political events that let the voting public see the stakes of the election.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  4/30/2020
  

  Did Lincoln Take his Cues From Congress?

  Historian Allen C. Guelzo reviews Fergus Bordewich's new book "Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America," which argues that the 37th and 38th Congresses had a bigger role in the abolition of slavery than the 16th president.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/22/2020
  

  An Earth Day Reminder of How the Republicans Have Forsaken the Environment

  by Elizabeth Kolbert

  Professors James Morton Turner and Andrew Isenberg's recent book identifies the Reagan Revolution as the moment the Republican Party rejected environmental regulation and made further protective legislation politically unthinkable for a generation.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  4/12/2020
  

  How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

  by Jane Mayer

  Finally, someone who knows him very well told me, “Give up. You can look and look for something more in him, but it isn’t there. I wish I could tell you that there is some secret thing that he really believes in, but he doesn’t.”

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  4/2/2020
  

  Trump Has Broken the Republican Party—and Conservatism—for Good

  by William Kristol

  There is no going back.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/1/2020
  

  We Can Finally See the Real Source of Washington Gridlock

  by Adam Serwer

  Washington gridlock stems from the ideological conviction, held by much of the Republican Party, that the Democratic Party is inherently illegitimate and has no right to govern.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/18/2020
  

  Republicans Like Me Built This Moment. Then We Looked The Other Way.

  by Stuart Stevens

  Those of us in the Republican Party built this moment. Now the nation must live with those consequences.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Does Lincoln or Trump Represent the Conscience of the Republican Party?

  by Richard Striner

  The comparison between Lincoln’s Republican Party and today’s Republican Party is especially troubling.

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• SOURCE: Just Security
  1/29/20
  

  The Obituaries of Republicans Who Opposed Nixon’s Impeachment

  by Ryan Goodman

  Regardless of whether the congressmen voted for or against the articles of impeachment, their legacies were largely defined by this one moment.

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• 12/17/19
  

  The Secret Plan to Force Out Nixon

  by Tim Naftali

  A newly released diary shows House Republican leaders pledging to oust the president months before he resigned. Why did they back down?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/5/19
  

  A Historic Crime in the Making

  by Rebecca Gordon

  400 years of history leading up to Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/10/19
  

  Don’t Expect Polls to Change Republican Minds

  by Nicole Hemmer

  When it comes to impeachment (and pretty much everything else), the G.O.P. is no longer driven by public opinion.