... in the four-decade career of a journalist who regularly has enlarged our understanding of American politics. Donald Trump Republican Party Democratic Party democracy race For most columnists, such arguments would be laced with observations based on what other journalists are reporting and political...

... on the Republican Party, the 2022 elections, and U.S. politics going forward. Trump election denial Republican Party 2022 election conspiracy theories Donald Trump’s claim that he won the 2020 election and that Joe Biden’s presidency is thus illegitimate is categorically false. It is also widely accepted...

...This epilogue deals with the growing hegemony of the Republican Party, which won control of the governor's mansion in 1991 with almost no black support. Republican officials in Mississippi embraced appeals to conservative whites, including the trappings of the Confederacy and its unsubtle racial...

... the political alliances of Reconstruction. Union Decoration Days became branded as Republican Party events by the opposition, who saw them as belonging to scalawags, carpetbaggers, and southern African Americans. Confederate Decoration Days, on the other hand, attracted former southern Democrats and Whigs who...

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...This introductory chapter presents a new perspective on how white evangelical Christians have become an important constituency for the Republican Party in the United States. Sociologist Robert Wuthnow has described this shift as part of a larger restructuring of American religion that took place...

...This chapter suggests that it is Palin's candidacy, rather than Clinton's, that gives us the better measure of the impact of the feminist movement of the past forty years. That there are women—and men—in the Republican Party who were genuinely energized in 2008 by a tough female candidate...

...This chapter examines the Panic of 1873 and its political implications for the Republican Party and the Treasury Department. More specifically, it shows how the Republican defeat in the congressional elections of 1874 led some Republicans to empower the Treasury Department with new forms...

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... Act, including the emergence of two new antislavery, anti-Democratic political parties: the Know-Nothings, or American Party, and the Republican Party. It considers how the Whig Party, Know-Nothings, and Republicans often worked together to defeat Democrats in the 1854 and 1855 elections. It also...

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... for the ouster from power of the instrument of the elite—the Republican Party—had been laid by the International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and its allies in the Communist Party, and this trend had begun to appear as early as the elections of 1944. This did not bode well for the “Big Five...

... of Alexander Hamilton's advocacy of executive power, his rights-positivism and nationalist leanings, and his desire to make the Republican Party a progressive party. Aldrich Nelson Iowa Idea La Follette Robert Marion pro regulation movement coalescing Roosevelt Theodore Junior accepting father's stern...

...In the spring of 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to America from a year-long overseas sojourn. He received an invitation to speak at the dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Osawatomie, Kansas. Upon his return, Roosevelt found that the Republican Party was beset with intellectual strife...

...Hoping to regain control of the Republican Party and, with it, the progressive moment, Theodore Roosevelt announced that he would challenge William Howard Taft for the Republican presidential nomination in 1912. He won 278 delegates through the party primaries, more than three-quarters of the total...

...”—that is, to allow the settlers inhabiting any territory to decide whether they wanted slavery or not. Both North and South realized the importance of the issue of slavery expansion to the future of America. White southerners were concerned about the threat to the slave trade if the Republican Party captured...

...During the Civil War Republicans contended that secret Democratic societies defied the government, undermining the Union war effort. The assertion of Democratic disloyalty lay at the core of Republican Party rhetoric during the war and remained a potent partisan strategy in the postwar decades...

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