By 1874 the Republican majority had outgrown its own abolitionist ideals
Evidence
The New York Times reported that “Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison are not exactly extinct from American politics, but they represent ideas in regard to the South which the majority of the Republican party have outgrown.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 681
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Nineteenth-century Republicans expanded court power to entrench economic nationalism against electoral defeat — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 340
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Nineteenth-century Republicans expanded court power to entrench economic nationalism against electoral defeat — Daryl Levinson and Benjamin I. Sachs, Political Entrenchment and Public Law, 340