2 thoughts on “The Republican Party”

1. “The presidency of Donald Trump strained the historic continuity of the party ”

   Trump had high approval ratings among Republicans and his policies were fairly normal. The only difference between him and the establishment is that he didn’t lie to his base about what he would do and he saw media for what it really is, DNC propaganda.

   The strain was with the kinda sorta Republicans that work at think tanks, write for NRO, or lived their life in the political industry. It is a small number of people.

   How do Republicans get them back and do they want them back? Who needs backstabbers, gritters, and sell outs?

2. In the 19th Century, if you believed in individual rights, state’s rights, and a small government, you would have been a Democrat. The Republican Party was birthed specifically to bring about a federal government with broader reach and more authority, especially to the cause of abolishing slavery, which they did. Prior to that period, few people, Whig or Democrat, thought Washington had that authority.

   For the next fifty years, the Republicans continued to be the party of big government, bringing us to the trust-busting years of the early 20th Century. But then there were the very confusing years in the lead-up to WWI, with Wilson, the Fed, direct election of the Senate, and other horrors. It was around this time that the two parties did something of a Dosey Doe, where the Democrats started to edge the GOP out of the big government championship and the Republicans got what was left, mostly disaffected Democrats. By the mid-1920s, Calvin Coolidge’s GOP was the closest thing to a small government party America was going to see for awhile.

   Think about it: Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican, FDR a Democrat, but their core beliefs were very similar. The Party of Lincoln may have freed the slaves, sort of, but they also created the early infrastructure that would lead to the enslavement of all.

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