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The Republican Party and the Cold War
There are two stages of the Republican party being the war party, he says. One period in which it is deeply contested, and a second period inWhich it is not. In World War I, there were the so-called irreconcilables, largely Republican senators from the Midwestern states who raise the banner of isolationism. This was true through the 1930s and 40s; Robert Taft among them.