Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves, and beginning to wonder whether the U.S. people would ever "come to their senses," the hard-core Republicans seemed bent on purging the party of "me too" deviationists-and in the process alienating the voters they most needed to win. The Democrats knew by heart one simple axiom: a political party should be like a Bowery mission-"everybody welcome." The hard-core Republicans gave the impression of having lost faith in their country. Writing in the current Harper's, liberal Historian Herbert Agar, who calls himself "a potential Republican voter," warned that the voters would never warm...