My dad was a died-in-the-wool Democrat in the ‘60’s. He was patriotic, pro-labor, pro-energy, pro-cheap gas and pro any policy that made America more powerful. Today he would be the extreme right of the Republican party. He never changed while he was alive. Instead, the Democratic party moved left on a rocket sled. I can’t even conceive of where the ‘60’s Republicans would stand on the spectrum today. Probably, they would be farther away than Alpha Centauri.
Those democrats were probably a lot more honorable than the progressives rats now.