Republican Party

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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.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/23/19
  

  ‘He lies like a dog’: The first effort to impeach a president was led by his own party

  Long before President Donald Trump, there was President John Tyler.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9/4/19
  

  Donald Trump’s Republican Party is not the party of Lincoln

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Republicans have embraced all that Lincoln loathed.

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• SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
  Accessed 8/9/19
  

  2 New Podcast Episodes Discuss How the Republican Party became the Party of Trump and CIA "Black Sites"

  Chris Riback in conversation with Tim Alberta and Philip Mudd.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/23/19
  

  Lincoln Would Not Recognize His Own Party

  by David W. Blight

  He would see the Republicans as the antithesis of everything he fought for.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/11/19
  

  When It Comes to Republican Defectors, Current Crisis Is No Watergate

  As history has shown with the Watergate and Iran-contra scandals, such investigations can gain legitimacy only when members of the president’s own party support them.

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• 5/9/19
  

  The Loss of Republican Principle

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and Kevin McCarthy are handling Trump far different than their counterparts during Watergate. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  Why Trump Won’t Stop Talking About Ilhan Omar

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president is following a Republican playbook that is now nearly two decades old.