He has a great post re Republicans having long tried to call into question any national government with sufficient power to govern a national state.
It remains worthwhile to point out, however, that the universalism of the Democratic Party for almost all of the 20th Century turned itself steadfastly against a strong well run nation state concept. It believed in a relatively weak welfare state, partly subsumed within a larger, globalist, more benevolent, and ostensibly more peaceful, universal state concept. League of Nations, UN, EU, things like that, were to truly govern, over the heads of all wayward nation states, in the immediate future. These were the lessons democratic liberal and left Americans took from the world wars and the inherent evils of nation states.
Isolationist Republicans held back, but the tempting tit of liberal international economy free globalist trade wooed them into a liberal universalist bipartisan line.
That is really what is known, delusionally, as the so called vital center.
These tendencies in both parties really go back to 17th century civil libertarian ideas, real Whigs, to later working class tendencies, and to religious sectarian fragmentation, and their united objections to strong government of any kind other than their sect's brand. If their sect could not rule, then no strong government should.
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