Ira Stoll on What the GOP Can Learn from the Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy

Republicans thinking about an agenda for the
future may want to borrow some ideas from an unlikely source—the
Democrats of the past.

Bill Clinton’s welfare reform and North American Free Trade
Agreement. John F. Kennedy’s tax cuts. President Carter’s
deregulation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s World War II resolve. Put
them together and update them for the current moment, writes Ira
Stoll, and they are the beginnings of an effective policy program
for Republicans in Congress or seeking the White House in 2016.
What’s more, talking about them as Democratic ideas could help
Republicans capture crossover voters while also reminding them how
far today’s Democrats have shifted left.

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