Peter Klein on how the deform caucus would have approached the slavery issue back in the day:
Oh, they’d produce wonkish policy reports on the details of the Fugitive Slave Act and how it could be more efficient. They’d invite prominent slaveholders and slave-state politicians to speak at their conferences, “engaging” them in serious dialogue about realistic, incremental reforms. They’d ridicule the radical abolitionists as cranks and boobs who aren’t “serious,” who don’t care about having an impact in the real world, who dream of “pushing a button” and ending slavery once and for all.
The radicals of the time may have “abolished” slavery for black people, but the reformers won in that they eventually made everyone slaves of the state.
[...] Reform Caucus and slavery [...]