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"You want to bring back the Republican Party of the Radical Reconstructionists--the hate crazed zealots, who sought to punish the South for the War."

The notion that those Republicans Radically opposed to slavery were hate-crazed zealots is a fiction by created by Confederate-apologist historians of the late-19th and early 2-centuries and perpetuated by their PC successors in academia today -- all with the goal of discrediting the very best of the Republican Party. The Republican Party, Radical or otherwsie, had little influence over the post-Civil War South until the Republican Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of March 1867 -- two years after Appomattox -- over the veto of the Democrat President, who until then was nearly unfettered in his collaboration with other southern Democrats to re-impose white Democrat elites over the South.
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Republican Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of March 1867 -- two years after Appomattox -- over the veto of the Democrat President, who until then was nearly unfettered in his collaboration with other southern Democrats to re-impose white Democrat elites over the South.

What you are referring to as "white Democrat elites" were the traditional leadership of the South--the Southern gentry class, to which Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Calhoun, Lee, etc., belonged. The class from which had come many of our greatest statesmen, war heroes and political thinkers. What the Reconstructionists preferred, since they disenfranchised many of such leaders, was an illiterate or semi-literate, low level electorate, composed of ex-field hands and people often referred to as "white trash."

You cannot with a straight face, suggest any noble reason for the new policy. It is the same as what Clinton did to Haiti, a few years ago. It is almost a form of foaming at the mouth egalitarianism. If it is not motivated by hatred of the old patrician class, just what motivates it?

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The notion that those Republicans Radically opposed to slavery

Puh-leeeeeze. Have you found another phrase that you can twist and then purport that you're not doing so? The radicals got their name from opposition to slavery now? This harkens back to your rediculous "Hillbilly" posts of days gone by.

Flush your headgear... it's long overdue.