Posted on 10/09/2025 10:20:11 PM PDT by 7thson
Please excuse this rant.
You’re correct, Republicans held those core values but back in the day so did the Democrats. It was their appeal to the masses that kept them more often than not dominant in national power. As my father (a WWII veteran and blue-collar worker) concisely put it: “The democrats are for the working man, the republicans are for the businessman”.
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