History Does Not Happen All at Once

A Rebel Guerrilla Raid In A Western Town by Thomas Nast (Harper’s Weekly, 1862)

If you haven’t already, you will hear and see arguments from the Party of Lincoln about how the politicians and voters of the Democratic Party are the “real racists” in our two-party system because it was historically the party of slavery, secession and the Ku Klux Klan back in the 19th Century. Republicans like to bring this history up because over the same course of our history their party had dramatically devolved from the…