THE Republican Majority Coalition was founded last December to refocus the Republican Party on economic and fiscal conservatism, free trade, law and order, a strong defense, and maximum individual liberty. In his Wall Street Journal op-ed of December 8, 1992, President Reagan identified these as the issues that unite Republicans. “As to other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement,” Reagan wrote.
How could Ronald Reagan justify excluding issues of morality from the definition of the Republican Party, a party founded on moral opposition to slavery?
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