Conservative. One of the few Democrats I like.
Do you think Teddy Roosevelt was conservative or liberal?
Liberal.
Now compare to Woody Wilson.
Communist.
Taft is not mentioned often but he is high on my Sh*t list. He went to Congress and pushed for the Income Tax. Unfortunately they did what he wanted . This Cancerous amendment essentially made all of us into free range slaves and fed the Federal Monster into the beast it is today.
So the point is, be careful who you think is a (modern) Repub and a (modern) Dem.
Teddy and Woody were both “progressives” - and president-wise, the perfect tipping point on when one became tyrannical and the other stopped.
The slavery thing really is overblown, and look who beats on it now. So you know likely you shouldn’t be lionizing Lincoln and the rest of the old Republicans, because they love them.