The Jeffersonian Political Future

Republicans should develop a broad embracing platform which will be supported by 75 percent to 80 percent of the American people.

I have spent 68 years studying and working on self-government, politics, and the patterns of history. At the moment, we seem deeply, bitterly, and narrowly divided.

However, I think we are on the edge of a breakout which will lead to the kind of dominance Thomas Jefferson’s movement developed between 1796 and 1812.

There is a huge difference between the s…