The freedom to learn the truth about our history. Just the opposite: It’s Republican lawmakers denying people their freedoms. Republican politicians have a particular ideology and are determined to impose that ideology on citizens holding different views and values. Republican officials force transgender students to play sports and use bathrooms according to their assigned gender at birth.Īnd across the country, Republican lawmakers are making it harder for people to vote. Republican lawmakers prohibit teachers from teaching about America’s racist past. Republican governors ban masks in schools. We disagreed, but their view was at least coherent and they were committed to it.īy contrast, today’s Republican Party is intruding everywhere: I remember long arguments with Republican lawmakers, behind closed doors, about whether a smaller government was genuinely in the interest of Americans. That’s not to say I agreed with it - far from it. ” The Republican politicians I once knew had a coherent view about preserving individual liberties and limiting the role of government. I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party really did stand for limited government - when Ronald Reagan thundered “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem. No, the Republican Party has morphed into a highly-disciplined advocate of intrusive government - intrusive, that is, where it seeks control over American society. Lower prescription drug prices, for example, would reduce the need for government spending on drugs. This isn’t because of Republicans’ aversion to government. Totally absent from media coverage is the fact that no Republican senator - not a single one out of fifty - has been willing to support these proposals. Anyone who’s been following the drama over Biden’s social and climate package would think that the major roadblocks have been two Democratic senators, Krysten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
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