Only gradually did Republican rhetoric drift toward the counterarguments.
"Instead, for a couple of decades, both parties are promising an augmented federal government devoted in various ways to the cause of social justice," Rauchway wrote in an archived 2010 blog post for the Chronicles of Higher Education (opens in new tab). (Image credit: Getty/ Bettmann) How did this switch happen?Įric Rauchway (opens in new tab), professor of American history at the University of California (opens in new tab), Davis, pins the transition to the turn of the 20th century, when a highly influential Democrat named William Jennings Bryan (best known for negotiating a number of peace treaties at the end of the First World War, according to the Office of the Historian) blurred party lines by emphasizing the government's role in ensuring social justice through expansions of federal power - traditionally, a Republican stance.īut Republicans didn't immediately adopt the opposite position of favoring limited government. The highly influential Democrat William Jennings Bryan, giving a speech.
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