How the Republican Party’s Founders Defeated Xenophobia. 7 minute read. Sheet music (circa 1854) for an anti-immigrant Nativist song proclaims 'Citizen Know-Nothing' as 'Uncle Sam's Youngest Son.' ...

The new Republican Party won one-third of the popular vote in 1856. Blair’s sons also pioneered as free-soilers and Republicans. ... ” The Founders fought for human rights, ...

Updated at 1:44 p.m. ET on December 14, 2018. Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical—it goes back many decades—and, in a way, philosophical.

Once upon a time, “republican,” with a small r, was the most revered word in this country—a sacred word. As you probably know, the founders weren’t crazy about democracy. They didn’t ...

The Republican Party needs to be “restored,” the group argues, to one without the “chaos and division that populism has unleashed.” Related Articles For Gov. Gavin Newsom, South Carolina ...

The United States has been a two-party democracy for most of its existence, much to the chagrin of some of its anti-partisan founders. Since 1860, those two parties have been the Democratic Party ...

The Republican Party is anti-democracy, post-democracy. While Democrats are screaming about a collapsing country, Republicans are already surveying the landscape of the America that will emerge ...

The entryway to the Republican Party of New Mexico’s headquarters was scorched on Sunday morning. AP. The words ‘ICE = KKK’ were sprayed onto the side of the building in red paint, leading ...

A fire damaged the entryway at the Republican Party of New Mexico’s Albuquerque headquarters early Sunday, which the party called “a deliberate act of arson.” CNN values your feedback 1.