Truely fascinating reading from a professor of history at Boston College in today's Washington Post on the two faces of the Republican party from the Civil War on and until today, where Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower stand on one side, while the modern day tea party, Ronald Reagan and Herbert Hoover (famous for his
Hoovervilles) are facing the other way, politically and ideologically speaking:
"How the GOP stopped caring about you":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-the-gop-stopped-caring-about-you-how-therepublicans-became-selfish/2014/09/17/7fe87a70-3dc5-11e4-9587-5dafd96295f0_story.html
