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<blockquote data-quote="Ticklishchap" data-source="post: 1020765" data-attributes="member: 84583"><p>I have just finished 'The Loneliness of the Black Republican' by Leah Wright Rigueur, as I take an interest in American politics. Perhaps disappointingly (as it was published in 2016), it doesn't take us up to the Trump era but goes from FDR's New Deal to the election of Ronald Reagan. Despite the ***le, it shows that there were quite a few Black Republicans in the mid-C20, including the liberal Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke (Massachusetts), of whom I had not heard but who contributed a lot to the Civil Rights movement from a moderate perspective.</p><p>Beyond the race and Civil Rights issue, the book showed that the Republicans were once a party where moderates and humanitarians could feel at home - before the rise of the 'religious right' and the current extreme form of populism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ticklishchap, post: 1020765, member: 84583"] I have just finished ‘The Loneliness of the Black Republican’ by Leah Wright Rigueur, as I take an interest in American politics. Perhaps disappointingly (as it was published in 2016), it doesn’t take us up to the Trump era but goes from FDR’s New Deal to the election of Ronald Reagan. Despite the ***le, it shows that there were quite a few Black Republicans in the mid-C20, including the liberal Republican Senator Edward W. Brooke (Massachusetts), of whom I had not heard but who contributed a lot to the Civil Rights movement from a moderate perspective. Beyond the race and Civil Rights issue, the book showed that the Republicans were once a party where moderates and humanitarians could feel at home - before the rise of the ‘religious right’ and the current extreme form of populism. [/QUOTE]
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