No revisionism is needed. They abolished slavery. Period.
They were not founded to abolish slavery as you claimed. Period.
They abolished slavery. Unless you can post something to prove that didn’t happen, you’re wasting FR’s bandwidth.
As per usual, Flt-Bird is playing word games.
Republicans certainly were Founded as the anti-Slavery party.
They certainly did want abolition in western Territories and wanted to maintain abolition of international imports of slaves.
Every Republican was an abolitionist in his own state, and some Founders, like John Fremont, favored national abolition.
Indeed, Fremont drove Southern Democrat Fire Eaters berserk with rage over his abolitionism.
Compared to Republican Founder Fremont, Lincoln was considered a "moderate" on abolition.
But never moderate enough to satisfy Democrat Fire Eaters.
They considered Lincoln's Republican abolitionism plenty enough to justify secession and war against the United States.
So, yes, Republicans were founded as the anti-slavery party.
Of course, no Republican, then or now, was a "woke" 1619er.