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Yes. Seriously. I was speaking in terms of the full course of American history. Post Civil War up until the McKinley and T. Roosevelt administrations your point is quite valid. And Harding and his people in the early 20's were if anything more corrupt than anyone around Grant. That sort of corruption is almost inevitable when one party becomes overly dominant.

But even during those periods of Republican national power Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, Tammany Hall, lynchings, etc. in the areas they dominated. How decent and law abiding were and are the Democrat (and mob) dominated unions? Look at how they still govern cities and States into virtual cesspits. And speaking of Lincoln, when did Republicans actively plan the assassination of a Democrat President-Elect on his way to his inauguration? This latest attempt to overthrow an election they lost having underestimated the number of falsified ballots required is par for the course.

But even during those periods of Republican national power Democrats were the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, Tammany Hall, lynchings, etc. in the areas they dominated.

I grew up thinking that Jim Crow, and the KKK were just evil and wrong, and nobody should defend them. It never occurred to me that there might be another way of looking at the situation.

What Republicans did to the South was to dump several million new voters onto their roles, and who would consistently and in lockstep vote for the Republicans then robbing and oppressing the South.

This was a naked power grab created for the sole purpose of maintaining power in Congress, and is little different from modern Democrats importing unassimilated foreigners and protecting illegal aliens who can reliably be counted upon to vote Democrat.

The Northern whites hated blacks more than did the Southerners, yet because they had fewer blacks in their communities (often having driven them out), they were not affected by laws that gave them the right to vote beyond allowing their representatives to have greater power in Congress with which to tax and spend and redistribute money to the North.

This was all couched in claims of "moral righteousness" but the underlying truth is they didn't do it because they cared about morality or because they cared about black people, they did it because they wanted that power black people would give them through the voting franchise.

Yes, I have become cynical. I see the media lying to us everyday, and always in a manner calculated to help the Democrats gain and keep power. I now realize this same sort of lying and misdirection has been going on for a very long time.