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.
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.