Almost all Republicans are unhappy with their party. Why is this? What does the Republican Party represent? Where did it go wrong? What are its core values? Host John Snyder discusses the differences and similarities of the parties and the ideas and values which have separated Democrats and Republicans for nearly 150 years.

The thesis is this: the democratic instinct in a constitutional republic like ours is deep and pervasive. It is fitting and proper that such a sentiment should be strong and vibrant in a representative democracy. But where do the hedges derive that shape and curtail the natural instinct of democratic man to confuse his own will with what is morally correct?

The political history of the United States shows that this nation has often confused what we politically desire and what is morally right. We confuse the will of the people with the mind of the moral law. According to host John Snyder, the Republican Party, the second party, when it is true to its history and ethos, acts as a conscientious countervailing force to the natural appetite of democracies to simply do whatever they please. In short, the Republican Party, like all its preceding manifestations: the Whig Party, the Liberty Party, and the Federalists, is the shadow of moral conscience that must warn us that the sovereignty that resides in the will of the people, when it is properly understood, must rule within the constraints of prudential restraint and the moral law..