If not for one momentous decision in 1976, Mississippi’s Clarke Reed would be considered one of the great heroes of the Republican Party renaissance of the latter 20th century.
The reality that he spent his last 48 years detested by a swath of Reaganite activists should not obscure his larger contributions to the cause.
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