Episode 1468 • • 2:26:13 - 2:31:26
1468: Superwokes
Senate Judiciary Hearing, Republican Party Origins
During a Senate hearing on the Dobbs decision, Representative Jamie Raskin incorrectly identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party. The hosts provide a historical correction, noting the party was founded in 1854 in Ripon, Wisconsin, by disaffected Whigs and Free Soil Party members, six years before Lincoln's election.