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The road from the GOP’s antislavery founding to Trump’s MAGA convention
RIPON, Wis. — The distance between Ripon 1854 and Milwaukee 2024 seems far greater than 86 miles or 170 years. It was in this small Wisconsin town, during a raging March snowstorm seven years before the start of the Civil War, that a band of local men …