[jeffersondem]

“The vote was close and the election resolved (in favor of the Republicans) by a corrupt bargain:”

Thank you for acknowledging the radical Republican corrupt bargain. I thought it might take three or four posts to get that admission.

Next, I'll have you agreeing the Grant administration was corrupt.

[BroJoeK]

"Thank you for acknowledging the radical Republican corrupt bargain.
I thought it might take three or four posts to get that admission."

Historians call it a "corrupt bargain" but Democrats were happy with it.
They cared more about removing Federal Reconstruction troops from former Confederate states than about winning the 1876 election.
From that time on the South reverted to radical Democrats' control, thus nullifying the new 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments.

"Next, I'll have you agreeing the Grant administration was corrupt."

Sure, but no more or less than any other.
The difference is that the "mainstream" Democrat press went after Grant the same way they've more recently gone after Donald Trump.

Typical Democrat media squawking.