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Southern Conservatives Revive Calhounism—Tyranny of the Minority

SMALL WONDER

A bill in South Carolina that would effectively nullify the Affordable Care Act is the latest sign of the modern Republican Party’s drift from the ideas that animated its creation, writes Jamelle Bouie.

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