[Publius]

The Republican Party created by Lincoln was a Hamiltonian construct opposed to the predominant Jacksonian flavor of federalism. The Civil War ended the argument about federalism with an approach that was almost consolidationist.

As a Progressive and as a Republican, TR had no room for the states. Thus, what that Leftist said on Fox News was correct. It was the Democratic Party that tried futilely to keep federalism alive after the Civil War -- until Woodrow Wilson pulled the Progressives into the party.

It was not until Barry Goldwater came on the scene in the Fifties that a federalist impulse entered Republican ranks. The Conscience of a Conservative is still a good read, even though it is half a century old. The book changed my life.

[Vaquero]

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