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Originally Posted by tryfuhl
The Republicans were the left of their day
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There have always been two wings to the Republican Party. The liberal war-mongering gunboat progressive wing of Teddy Roosevelt, and the "if it's not in the Constitution we don't do it" wing of Taft. I'm not here to carry water for the Republicans. They've been in the pockets of the bankers since the progressive era, but to say that they're the party of racist and the K club is a gross and uneducated twist on history.