“Republicans…object to government regulation of business, provision of a basic social safety net, and promotion of infrastructure. … This is a modern-day stance, by the way: it was actually Republican president Theodore Roosevelt who first proposed universal healthcare at the beginning of the twentieth century, and Republican president Dwight Eisenhower who first tried to muscle such a program into being…”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 23, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-23-2025
#usa #republicans
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