"The Confederacy and its flag do not represent freedom for anyone, they represent tyranny at its worst and crushing the Confederacy was one of the GOP's greatest moments."
ROFL "at its worst".
Let's see....
Hitler
Lenin
Stalin
Nero
Caligula
MOHAMMED
Any number of myriad butchers I can think of who were much more "worst".
In that, they do represent a proto-facist mind set.
Freeing two million souls from bondage was an excellent start for the new GOP.