These are the same people who defended slavery.
The Dixie Democrats defended slavery. It is the north eastern Ivy League Democrats who defend the slavery of Communism. It is the college educated New Deal Democrats of the 1930s who claimed that the Joseph Stalin genocide of 11 million Ukrainians was a wonderful event because it was Land Reform. Democrats through out the ages have been corrupt in the manor of gangsters. If Al Capone were alive today his name might be mister Democrat.