Not to get off point here, but I was just making a comment that Democrats have done things that they would eviscerate a Republican for doing.
Then again, a typical Liberal thinks that Jim Crow Laws, the KKK and opposition to the Civil Rights Act were Republican ideas.
That’s a line of argument that has its roots in the 1960s Left. I wish conservatives would cease using it but Hannity and Limbaugh keep making it popular. It will backfire on those who use it.
The Republican party has plenty in its own past that makes a mockery of the Bill of Rights. I doubt that 5% of this site has much of an idea of what Reconstruction entailed. The Civil Rights Acts were passed by FDR protege Lyndon Johnson with the assistance of the progressive northeastern GOP establishment and those acts were opposed by Barry Goldwater and other conservatives.
Conservatives of that time understood that giving the national government the power inherent in those bills would permit politicians to dictate what is acceptable opinion and criminalize what authorities dislike. You have to look no further than what is happening to those frat boys in Oklahoma. In another time they would have been regarded as boorish or rude at worst. Now they are nationally reviled thought criminals worthy of having their lives ruined. That is a predictable result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Celebrate it if you want, I won’t.