From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?
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The Republican Party's Moral Dimension
The Republican Party seeks to exclude certain groups of people from the polity, writes Julian Zelizer. The party also seeks to moralize them to turn them into good Americans, he says. And if they can't turn them into Protestants, then perhaps they have to accept second-class citizenship or marginal status in American life,. This moral dimension of the Republican Party is very important; it's an inheritance from the Whigs.
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