Paleoconservatism

Republican Party Platform of 1872

I wish this was still their platform, instead of the current platform- bomb, steal, and lie.

Excerpt:

" We are opposed to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies", "It disapproves of the resort to unconstitutional laws for the purpose of removing evils", "[Import taxes] should be so adjusted as to aid in securing remunerative wages to labor", and "Any system of the civil service under which the subordinate positions of the government are considered rewards for mere party zeal is fatally demoralizing".

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