There’s historic liability for the dems, since their Party was originally founded to safeguard slavery.
Their current narrative is that they switched sides: they don’t want that.
what they want is to say conservatives conceived of, initiated, maintained and safeguarded slavery, which was abolished by the dens.
they’re uncomfortable with their own history.
that’s why the current military arm of the den party -antifa- is attacking and removing commemorations to the old militant wing of the Dem party, Dixie generals.
they’re embarrassed about that.
they prefer to say Repubs did it and they, the Dems, had always taken the lead in combating that.
My guess is that new cultural things like the movies of Dinesh D’Souza really scared the tar out of them and they’re trying to head that off the pass.
I'm reading through the replies and I come to this line and I go "huh?"
Andrew Jackson was the founder of the Modern Democrat party, and I don't think he did it to safeguard slavery. Slavery was already pretty safe in 1828. I think his big issue was the Bank of the United States, which he saw as a Hamiltonian con machine, and of course he worked to destroy it.
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“The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me. But I will kill it."Ever since I read the history of the South Sea Bubble, I have been afraid of banks."
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”
-Andrew Jackson-