Voting records are public my dudes. Why shouldn’t the democrats be fucking talking about blacklisting every single person who registered as a republican at one point in their life?
Y’all are very pessimistic with electoralism and I am too but I would literally do a critical support for libs if they just threatened it!
The republicans literally tried to overthrow the government on January 6th, that was worse than 9/11 that bitch deserved to be shot.
So many of this country problems if all the white people who predominately support the Republican Party were banned from government jobs, owning property, getting drivers licenses, or voting.
Target the Republican Party and you can get rid of the white peoples institution power. Let them try to do civil war 2 and kill hopefully millions of them with drones striked by trans black indigenous women piloting drones.
Now I really don’t have faith in the dems on being good, but they would be better. I would rather have Mensheviks than fucking fascists.
The nascent 19th century GOP was home to the bulk of the abolitionist movement and hosted a large coalition of black civil rights leaders for decades. It wasn’t until Hayes that Republican leadership really surrendered to the Dixiecrats. Even then, you’d periodically see subsequent savvy Republican leverage black support to land a blow on southern democrats. Unfortunately, the most common way to do this was by using lumpen black labor as strikebreakers and scabs, which only exacerbated the racial labor divide.
Whigs certainly advocated for both things. But that party went extinct in 1860. So the modern GOP gets to pretend it didn’t happen, in the same way they get to pretend Coastal Woke Elitist Liberals of the modern day wouldn’t have been right at home in the GOP of the Lincoln Era.
I know that the GOP had the radical abolitionist faction, but that doesn’t change that party policy in the very early years wasn’t even for gradual abolition, even if the moderate members were technically not fans of slavery.
Not having a coherent abolitionist policy was what broke the old Whig coalition. But - as crazy as it sounds - the heart of the Republican platform at its inception was abolition of slavery in states where it was already illegal. Thanks to the Fugitive Slave Acts and assorted SCOTUS decisions, liberal Republicans weren’t even allowed that much.
That was also enough to send Dixiecrats into such a lather that they imploded into civil war and their own self-destruction.