[DoodleDawg]

Just in case you didn’t know, the democrat party used to be the conservative party and the party that supported less government and lower taxes.

Yeah, Bryant and Roosevelt and Carter were rock-ribbed conservatives. </sarcasm>

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Back in the 1860s it was. Around the turn of the century (1900) it began its slow change (which took over 60 years to complete) to become what it is today.