YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoUmm, GOP: When Did You Become the Pro-Child-Labor Party?newrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1579arrow-down115
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minus-squarechiliedogg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down16·11 months agoTechnically, the first Republican President was the one to end slavery, so I wouldn’t go that far. But they’ve obviously changed a great deal since those days, and modern Republicans wouldn’t have been in of the party of Lincoln.
minus-squareIHaveTwoCows@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·11 months agoExactly this. When someone screams that “Democrats started the KKK!!” my answer is always “CONSERVATIVES started the KKK, and some Democrats are CONSERVATIVES.”
Technically, the first Republican President was the one to end slavery, so I wouldn’t go that far.
But they’ve obviously changed a great deal since those days, and modern Republicans wouldn’t have been in of the party of Lincoln.
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Exactly this. When someone screams that “Democrats started the KKK!!” my answer is always “CONSERVATIVES started the KKK, and some Democrats are CONSERVATIVES.”
Party switch.