I have serious problems with the present day GOP.
Runaway pork barrel spending(waste, fraud & abuse), deficits(balance the budget), taxes(income taxes and the IRS should be eliminated) and illegal immigration(secure the borders, fine employers who hire illegals and deport illegals) just to name a few.
I always looked forward to the day that the GOP had control of Congress and the White House with great expectations...only to be verrrrrry disappointed!
Probably we shouldn't trust parties as much as people do. Parties are more like committees organized to achieve specific purposes than churches that lay claim to the whole truth and only way to salvation. It's enough for now that one is better than the other, and it's up to us to take the next step to get them to deal with the important questions.
The more things change, though, the more they stay the same. When we see how hard it is to get things done now, and how easy it is to for parties and governments to get derailed by those who want power or favors, we can understand how hard it was for America to address slavery and other divisive questions in the past.