Tag: Conservatism

As a political science teacher for forty years, I am well aware of the historical platforms of the GOP beginning with my first awareness in the election of 1964. These was thread of opposition to the federal government, except for the military. There was the red scare fear of everything Soviet or Ch...

Since the Republican Party has almost entirely embraced Trumpism, those who take this route will be paddling upstream. This approach is sensible, nonetheless, given our electoral system. As long as we have winner-take-all elections, we will have a two-party system. Here’s another way to thi...