[Grand Old Partisan]

I should also add that Thaddeus Stevens was against capital punishment, so all this neo-Confederate nonsense about him wanting to hang the defeated rebels is...nonsense. Stevens even offered to defend Jefferson Davis against any death sentence. It was Andrew Johnson, be it remembered, who had been demanding the gallows for "Jefferson Davis and his pirate crew" (his words).

[GOPcapitalist]

I should also add that Thaddeus Stevens was against capital punishment

So Thaddeus Stevens:

1. Supported massive tax hikes
2. Supported redistributionary tax schemes
3. Supported government handouts to his business cronies
4. Supported the expansion of the federal government
5. Opposed the death penalty

That looks like the classic definition of a liberal if I ever saw one!