Since Lincoln was in the Republican Party, I could more clearly say the current Republican Party (which we are still trying to overcome in the last several decades) has failed to “remember” the lessons of good and evil from the Civil War while the formerly racist Southern Democrats of the mid 20th Century and before have been overcome wi…
Since Lincoln was in the Republican Party, I could more clearly say the current Republican Party (which we are still trying to overcome in the last several decades) has failed to “remember” the lessons of good and evil from the Civil War while the formerly racist Southern Democrats of the mid 20th Century and before have been overcome within the now much more egalitarian Democratic Party as a whole -- despite much more work, conviction and defense to finally be achieved by the party to protect all Americans and those who reside here (or seek to) in pursuit of America’s written and lauded principles that unfortunately remain weakened and attacked year after year by opportunists and sociopaths.
Since Lincoln was in the Republican Party, I could more clearly say the current Republican Party (which we are still trying to overcome in the last several decades) has failed to “remember” the lessons of good and evil from the Civil War while the formerly racist Southern Democrats of the mid 20th Century and before have been overcome within the now much more egalitarian Democratic Party as a whole -- despite much more work, conviction and defense to finally be achieved by the party to protect all Americans and those who reside here (or seek to) in pursuit of America’s written and lauded principles that unfortunately remain weakened and attacked year after year by opportunists and sociopaths.
The "Lincoln was GOP" and "Wilson, a Dem, was KKK" arguments are stupid but effective.