Abstract

The Future of the Republican Party

The periodical printed an article by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., concerning the future of the Republican Party. Schlesinger's thesis, briefly, was that the issue of isolationism had brought about a division in the party comparable to the division on the slavery issue which resulted in the dissolution of the Whig Party shortly before the Civil War. Schiesingec contended that unless the Republican Party gave full support to the foreign policy advocated by Wendell Wilikie it would meet the same fate, Willkie leading the Conscience Republicans' into a union with the New Deal Democrats behind some progressive candidate in 1944, in opposition to the Know Nothing and appeasement elements of both parties united behind someone like Lindbergh."