This whole thread is worth your time, but this one sticks out to me. Conservatives tried to claim Truman 10-15 years ago. Are they seriously trying to claim Kennedy now too? Hoo-boy.https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1104826921513353217 …
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Of course positions on issues change over time. But if you spend serious time reading the Republicans of the 1850s-60s, there are many powerful common threads to today's GOP. Then as now, it was a marriage of Christian moralizers & Lockean views of free markets in labor.
The current base of the Republican party -- the vast majority of states and people who put Republicans in office -- fought a literal war to flee a nation governed by Lincoln and then assassinated him. I'd suggest you're overthinking that.
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