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From Lincoln to Trump: What Happened to the Republican Party?

Jul 20, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Republican Party in the Decade Before the Civil War

2min

The Republican Party in the Age of Paranoid Politics

2min

The Republican Party and the Industrial Revolution

2min

The Republican Party's Moral Dimension

2min

The Reconstruction of the Republican Party

2min

The Failure of Reconstruction

2min

The Right of Government to Regulate Property

2min

The History of the Republican Party

4min

10.

The Republican Party and the Cold War

2min

11.

The Second Stage of the Republican Party Becomes the War Party

2min

12.

The Disorientation of the Republican Party

2min

13.

The Republican Party Is Criticizing America's Deep State

2min

14.

The Transformation of the Republican Party

4min

15.

The Transformation of the Republican Party

2min

16.

The Civil War in the 1960s and 70s

2min

17.

The Republican Party's Reconstruction of America

2min

18.

The Transformation of the Republican Party

2min

19.

The Republican Party's History of Abortion

3min

20.

The Catholic Protestant Divide in American History

2min

21.

The Reconciliation of Religion and Morality in American Politics

2min

22.

The Flooding of Morality Back Into American Politics

2min

23.

The Importance of Morality in American Politics

5min

24.

The Confusion and Volatility of This Moment

2min

25.

The Emergence of a New Party

2min

26.

The Republican Party's Threat to Default on Debt

1min

27.

The Chaos of the 1930s

2min

28.

The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order

2min

This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does an organisation born out of anti-Catholicism now see its mission as to get Catholics onto the Supreme Court? And what could finally break the party apart?

Gary Gerstle’s latest book is The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.

For more on the Great Abortion Switcheroo of the 1970s.

Listen again to David’s episode on Hume and American default.

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