[Salamander]

You cannot tell them that.

Just try it.

Within seconds, they will drag out that idiotic “the parties [magically] switched and are now reversed” mythology of which they are desperately fond.

In their minds, somehow miraculously and retroactively, all those Klansmen were really Republicans in disguise.

Crazy people, all of them.

[central_va]

The 19th century Republican Party was THE radical party aligned on the fringes with abolitionists, many who were terrorists. Universally, freeing blacks was a radical idea in all parts of the country. Even Lincoln thought blacks were inferior. Some of what Lincoln said, it's documented, would be perfectly in line with the modern day KKK.

Do I have to prove it, again?

[Federal46]

I’ve heard many Democrats try that tactic, just ask them if they think all those wearing hoods would have voted for Abraham Lincoln.

[sipow]

They think of history the same way they think of gender.

Completely changeable and whatever they felt like when they woke up this morning.