How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes
…rality that transcends the actual issues in question. The country faced a similar dilemma in the 1890s over vexing questions of economic policy. At the time, like a political version of “Freaky Friday,” the personalities of the two major political parties were reversed, Under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, the “Bourbon” Democrats were the party of big business, small government and states’ rights. The Republicans were just emerging from the p…
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