Towards a Republican Party Platform of Principle

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In Cleveland Monday morning, Boyd Matheson, the former chief of staff to Utah senator Mike Lee, made an interesting pitch to Republicans on the party’s platform committee: a shorter, more meaningful GOP platform. Rather than a party platform that takes up tens of thousands of words and attempts to settle nearly every policy dispute that Republicans might have, Matheson proposed a shorter platform and one focused on core principles.

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