Evan McMullin and Miles Taylor on the need for “rational Republicans”
Today’s GOP is in thrall to Donald Trump, not conservative principles. We aim to create a powerful faction in the party—or a new party altogether
By Evan McMullin and Miles Taylor
ONE DECADE after the American civil war, the revered general-turned-president, Ulysses Grant, was still worried about internal strife. “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s,” Grant warned Americans in a speech in 1875. Instead of the geographic North-South split, he feared it would be “between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
The future Grant feared has come to pass.
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