09-04-2016, 12:05 AM
(09-02-2016, 03:27 AM)Einzige Wrote: In what ways were the Progressive Era Democrats different from modern Republicans? And does that mean you believe that the Democrats will come to resemble the Republican Party of Theodore Roosevelt?
TR was a Republican in the top left quadrant, he was somewhat of an outlier even in 1901 and the party soon moved away from him while the Democrats moved toward him. During the gilded age the balance of power shifted sharply to the right side of the chat but if you go back to the Civil War era Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens were both from that quadrant. Today almost everyone there is a Democrat but if there’s anything to this theory the Republicans should start to move in the direction during the 1T.