Gary Markstein for March 24, 2024

Sadly, it is not, Mr. President. Your liberal, anti-slavery, common man, federalist Grand Old Party was subsumed into the conservative, racist, states-rights Dixie-cratic party of wealthy Southerners and their sympathizers. It was a gradual process, not unlike the periodic swapping of the magnetic poles of the Earth over the eons, but more traumatizing to our body politic. The names stayed the same, but the core tenets have swapped 180 degrees since your time. Ironically, you and your assassin would belong to the other’s political party now.

I watched a video on YouTube the other day (it’s been around a long time). It was a film made in the 1920’s or 30s just as talkies were coming out and consisted of old Confederate soldiers and one old black former slave talking about how good life had been before the war destroyed everything. Gosh darn those Yankees. This came out at the time of the KKK revival and when the Daughters of the Confederacy began their campaign of erecting Confederate statues. What was even more troubling were the modern comments praising these old guys for their sacrifices and for telling the “real truth.” Comments like “God bless the South” were frequent.

I wonder how many of them would respond positively if a petition went around to re-institute slavery.

Was: The Party of Lincoln

Is: The Party of Stinkin’

It’s not even the party of Ronald Reagan anymore, as odious as he was.

I maintain that William F. Buckley, James Kilpatrick, and Barry Goldwater would have left the party by now.

I didn’t like Barry Goldwater too much. Compare him to MTG and he seems angelic.

The Republican Party began in the 1854 as the Liberal party in the U.S. Lincoln, a Liberal, was their first elected president. Republican Teddy Roosevelt was a Liberal. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was a Southerner, conservative racist. Coolidge and Hoover were Republican conservatives. conservatives called Eisenhower a “socialist”, some even called him a “communist”. The Republican Party had a Liberal wing well into the 1960s, and last led by Thomas Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller. It was Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ in 1968 that began the full conversion of conservatives in the South to the GOP. Imagine the South supporting the ‘Party of Lincoln’. In the last 10 – 15 years conservatives have pushed out all the moderates.

The parties change philosophies, but the philosophies do not change. conservatives opposed our independence, forced our founders to keep slavery in order to win independence, seceded from the Union and made war on the U.S. conservatives are the enemy of the U.S. and have been since 1774.

It really SHOULD be noted here that Lincoln abandoned the “republican” party and essentially ran as an “independent” in 1864… He ran on the “National Union Party” ticket after rejecting the republican party as way too radical, even for HIS radical tastes…

It hasn’t been since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, followed by Connolly’s successful ‘Democrats for Nixon’ campaign.

It’s the Putin controlled Maga party now. And just like everything else diaper Donnie has anything to do with, it will fail too.

RINO, the GQP QANON MAGA White Christian Nationalist Party as it shall now be known.

Trump’s song: “It’s my party and I’ll whine if I want to.”

It was Lincoln who opined that the war the U.S. would lose would come from within.

“It was my party, and I’ll cry ’cause I need to.