By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The interference of a foreign country in our elections is an assault on the government of the United States. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republican ideology says the government has no business supporting ordinary Americans: they should work to survive, even if that means they have… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the New Deal in the 1930s, radical conservatives have railed against the idea that the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Republican approach to handling the coronavirus and the economy is apparently not to turn to our government, but to put our… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1981, when government policies began to undermine the liberal consensus of the previous generation, wealth began to diverge. It is… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the United States government had organized new territories in the West at a cracking pace, both to keep… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, Movement Conservatives created a cast of villains. The Brown v. Board decision in 1954 and President Eisenhower's use of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Elites want to cut taxes and stop government regulation of business. Evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And alt-right voters… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1820s, westerners and political outsiders worried that rich men in the east had commandeered the government for their own ends. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The government's job, according to modern Republicans, is not the protection of equal opportunity for all Americans, but rather the protection of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen,… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans who controlled the government in the 1920s insisted that national prosperity depended on government protection of the rich, who they believed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In 1860, the Republicans put Lincoln in the White House, and Southerners left the Union. Their absence opened the way for the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans controlled the federal government for decades after the Civil War, and their policies funneled wealth upward -- with dire consequences. In… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's New Deal regulated business, protected social welfare and promoted national infrastructure on the principle that the role of government was not… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Undermining the rule of law is an assault on the government of the United States. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan's administration was exposed for having illegally sold arms to Iran to raise money covertly for the Contra rebels fighting… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's alliance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America's own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
