When did admitting mistakes become weakness for Republicans?
In 2002, Trent Lott of Mississippi tried, awkwardly, to make amends. What did the then-Senate majority leader do to merit penance? Waxing poetic and perhaps feeling a bit nostalgic, Lott gave a speech honoring the 100th birthday of fellow Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the onetime Dixiecrat who once broke off from the Democratic Party with
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