People can argue hypothetical’s all day long about who MLK would support today. The people who claim to have “debunked” the fact that MLK was a Republican point to his support for Democrats like JFK or LBJ. Ed Koch supported GW Bush but that doesn’t mean he is not a Democrat. The only unarguable fact that can determine if a person is a Republican or nor is their voter registration. If you registered to vote as Republican you are one. The party may not like it, you may never agree with the party but that is the only formal declaration that exists. And the fact is that MLK registered to vote as a Republican and never changed his registration
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MLK was a big-government Socialist who moved further and further leftward throughout the ‘60s in order to stay relevant. The “people” that debunked that headline many months ago was me. We only know his father, as were most Southern Blacks, was a Republican up through the late ‘50s. He NEVER voted Republican again for President starting with the 1960 election. He also was a strong supporter of the racist Jimmy Carter in the 1970s. We were never able to find definitive proof that MLK, Jr. was registered with a given party, but he most assuredly had little or nothing to do with the GOP from 1960 onward. He went out of his way to bash Goldwater as a tool of Southern racists (disregarding that he WAS pro-Civil Rights and NOT a racist).
Again, if you can find the evidence via voter registration that MLK, Jr. was a Republican (he would’ve turned 21 in 1950), be my guest in trying to locate it. Even if you do, the central point still remains he was as far afield ideologically from Conservative Republicanism as you could get. It would be akin to proving Lincoln Chafee and Jim Jeffords were Republicans, but doesn’t change the fact that both were ultraliberals who left the party. Unquestionably, MLK, Jr. would be 100% behind Obama today.