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Joshua Spivak: Republicans forgo a detailed party platform. Is it time for the tradition to end?
Republicans are once again attempting to reject the long tradition of setting out a detailed party platform. In 2020, they discarded the platform drafting entirely and wrote a note just pointing at the 2016 version. This year, with abortion a serious hot- …