The Fall of the House of Labor AtD.93 Republicans?

[alice wellintown]

Andrew Jackson is an interesting example because he embodies the
complexity of issues and political currents and strange bed-fellows
that follow in his wake. As I posted previously, it's not Washington,
although the politics of Washington and New England and the South and
Immigration are all woven into the story by Pynchon, but, as Tip
O'Neil famously said, "local" politics that is described in teh
passage. So, as I noted the other day, Peabody (Conservative Business
Republican). And, when we trace it out, it doesn't go to Bush, but to
other Republicans, Radical and Conservative, and Populists and
Anarchists and Socialists and....this is what makes the novel so
fascinating and so historical.  The turning of the screws and the
screwing by them. All one body politic cutting off its nose