[katana]

OK, consider me "assured". The party of Jackson differed from that of Wilson. And Wilson would probably have been appalled at Johnson pushing the 1964 Civil Rights Act past the filibusters of his fellow Democrats to have "them n***ers voting for us for the next hundred years". Truman and Kennedy might feel right at home in the same party as Donald Trump. And Trump himself isn't a milquetoast like so many institutional Republicans have become. That wasn't the point. What strikes me is the consistency, over time and in multifarious and contradictory forms, of corruption and treason in one of the two national parties.

If you feel that's ignorant, so be it. I've read that letter of Sherman's before. His autobiography has some shockingly blunt and uncomfortable comments in it as well. I don't agree at all with his view of the Federal Government as akin to a Feudal lord with God given authority. Like everyone he was a man of his times and circumstances. The curious fact is that it's today's Marxist Democrats who echo the view he expressed about Federal authority and the need to "eliminate" anyone who resists. N'est-ce pas?

[DiogenesLamp]

What strikes me is the consistency, over time and in multifarious and contradictory forms, of corruption and treason in one of the two national parties.

Seriously? The Grant administration was considered the most corrupt in US history. Most people do not believe this to be the fault of Grant, and nor do I. I believe this is the legacy of all the corruption that Lincoln brought into the government during his tenure.

I think Lincoln set the stage for wholesale government corruption, and the "deep state" has been selling influence and government policy ever since.