I would dispute that. As far I can tell the RAT party has been controlled (certainly at the national level) by 'Blame American First' demagogue socialists since at least the 1890s. And when it comes to moral issues, the RAT party has been on the wrong side of history ever since the pro-slavery crowd seized control of it nationally in the 1860s. I don't think there was anything "traditional, patriotic" about the RAT party during the Wilson, FDR, and LBJ era, sorry. Traditional & Patriotic doesn't belong in the same sentence with those RATs. I'm pretty sure my family had good reason for voting Republican back then.
Of course this thread mentions democracy is under attack. Some freepers claim all democracy is bad and automatically results in "mob rule", therefore by their twisted logic, democracy under attack must be a good thing. Can't allow the dreaded democracy into our Republic!
I do not remember the Wilson era but I do remember some of FDR, all of Truman and all of LBJ.
I am trying to distinguish between today's leaders / stalwarts and the apolitical FDR, yellow-dog Democrat rank-and-file.
Democrat patriots filled the ranks of the "Greatest Generation," Korean, and Viet Nam war troops as much as Republicans.
They even served as Reagan Democrats.
They do not yet fully recognize, it seems to me, that their grandfathers and fathers Democratic Party ain't no more.
Why alienate them as they begin to "wake up?" Keep them separate from the bad guys, I say.
The Dems may have been "demagogue socialists since at least the 1890s" but they were our demagogue socialists.
I'm no where close to a historian but except for the most radical I do not believe that the Dems were 'Blame American First' until the Sixties Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble took over the Party.