Republicans

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• 1/4/2023
  

  Republicans (Finally) Rally Around McCarthy as Speaker

  Kevin McCarthy has secured the speakership through apparent deals allowing a group of right-wing hardliners to have greater influence over legislation and more investigative power. Historians followed the voting and discuss what comes next. 

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• 12/8/19
  

  An Extinct Species: The Liberal Republican

  by Donne Levy

  As both parties have unified, those whose views are not considered mainstream enough have been sidelined or eliminated. This shift has meant the extinction of the liberal or moderate Republican.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  7/28/2019
  

  ‘I’m Not a Traitor, You Are!’ Political Argument from the Founding Fathers to Today’s Partisans

  American history is filled with examples where one partisan side alleges that some idea embraced by the other side threatens to compromise American national strength or sovereignty.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy.

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• 3/17/19
  

  The Cult of Trump

  by Michael A. Genovese

  Come home Republicans.  We need you.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/21/19
  

  How the Republican Response to the Mueller Investigation Breaks With History

  Historians say this marks a new era of hyperpartisanship that will likely erode trust in traditionally independent law enforcement agencies.  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/29/19
  

  Texas Republicans criticized for their Holocaust Remembrance Day message: ‘Leftism kills’

  The Anti-Defamation League criticized the Facebook post on Sunday and countered more vehemently on Monday the local GOP’s attempts to tie the Holocaust to leftism.

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• 10/7/18
  

  What’s Happened to the Big Wage Increases Promised by Republicans?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The rich made off with the money the GOP predicted would be shared with workers.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  8-20-18
  

  Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism Anymore

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  8-13-18
  

  Dinesh D’Souza Is Q but for Book-Reading Republicans

  by Ronald Radosh

  His crackpottery is being applauded in conservative outlets that seem to have been infected by a strain of whataboutism that one could call Trump Derangement Derangement Syndrome.

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• SOURCE: The Week
  7-24-18
  

  How Republicans became anti-democratic

  by Damon Linker

  Republicans are proving themselves to be enemies of democratic governance.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4-16-18
  

  Where is Republican courage?

  by Richard Moe

  That’s the question the country has been hearing, and asking, during the first 15 months of the Trump presidency.

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• 7-23-17
  

  Do a Majority of Republicans Really Distrust Higher Education?

  by John Willingham

  That’s the gist of a recent Pew poll, but the poll was taken on the heels of a string of campus protests that shaped the response.

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• 10-25-15
  

  The Alarming Parallels this Historian Sees Between What’s Going on in Congress Today and the Antebellum Congresses He Studies

  by Michael Todd Landis

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• 4-13-15
  

  Why Indiana Republicans Blundered so Badly on Gay Rights

  by Victoria Saker Woeste

  They relied on analysis by a dozen law school professors that ignored the historical progression towards including gay rights among civil rights.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-27-15
  

  For G.O.P., Support for Israel Becomes New Litmus Test

  In the past the GOP was more willing to criticize Israel.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  11-15-14
  

  What Happened the Last Time Republicans Had a Majority This Huge?

  In 1928, Republicans won 270 seats in the House. They were on top of the world.

• SOURCE: Nashville Public Radio
  2-25-13
  

  TN ban on renaming Civil War parks passes over Dems' objections

  Legislation that would prevent the renaming or moving of war-related monuments in Tennessee passed the state House last night. The bill comes as city officials in Memphis have renamed three Confederate-themed parks.Democrats tried to get the bill’s sponsor – Republican Steve McDaniel – to admit he was responding to the name changes in Memphis, which he denied.Rep. Johnnie Turner asked what if Jews hadn’t been allowed to tear down Nazi statues....