The worst part about Wilson's legacy is that there are useful idiots in the GOP who do the mainstream media and Democrats dirty for them, repeating the history revisionism BS that "the Democrats were the conservative party back then".
A handful of right-of-center RATs in the one party solid south certainly didn't make them "the conservative party" nationally. Wilson would have never gotten his marxist agenda passed if there weren't numerous other "progressive" RATs in the House, Senate, and SCOTUS to do his bidding (especially Louis Brandeis, Champ Clark, and J. Hamilton Lewis).
Yeah I see that BS everywhere, ignorant fools on both sides like to propagate that myth. Just the other day on you tube, in the comments section for that movie clip where Bob Hope jokes about democrats being Zombies, some moron said something like “democrats were like Republicans back then”. The movie was from 1940! What kind of Republican was FDR like? Lowell Weicker?
I remember when I was a kid I went to the Chi historical society on a field trip or something and the docent when talking about Lincoln and Douglas said the parties have “switched” since then. Douglas, pro-choice on the moral issue of his time, doesn’t sound like much has changed.
I’m sickened that some freepers think that way too, Lincoln was commie, long live the Confereacsah!
The truth is IMO the democrats were always “the bad guys” even back in the pre-socialism days when they were agrarian morons.
Grover Cleveland was about the only democrat party President that wasn’t a total POS or a useless meatbag, maybe Polk too.