The Democrat Party was Never Democratic

Article author: 
Douglas Schwartz
Article publisher: 
American Thinker
Article date: 
24 August 2024
Article category: 
Our American Future
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RFK Jr. recently lamented:

The Democratic party I grew up with, the party of Robert and John Kennedy, was fighting to make sure that Americans, every American, could vote for the candidates that they chose to vote for. And this Democratic party is doing everything in its power to make sure Americans are disenfranchised.

Democrats abhor democracy and project their sins onto opponents. Is this new? Certainly not during the party’s founding or at any point in between.

The Democratic party began in 1828 as a southern phenomenon to elect Andrew Jackson, famous for exploits in Indian wars. Jacksonian “democracy” excluded certain races. Jackson’s Removal Act of 1830 focused on clearing the South of 50,000 remaining Indians to prepare for slave plantations...

Democrats started the Civil War to prevent all Americans from enjoying citizenship. 800,000 dead later they surrendered...

Biden represented the final congressional remnant of Jim Crow, the last of his political breed...

Democrats’ 1960s Great Society programs built on the New Deal’s socialist momentum, making minorities wards of the state and incentivizing destruction of families...

RFK Jr. failed to breach Democrats’ layered defenses. Trump appeals to the majority, a unifier. Democrats seek to divide their subjects...

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