True Leftism vs. Alan Grayson-style Leftism

[Rockefeller GOP]

Alan Grayson-style leftism built the American middle class, freed the slaves, liberated Europe from the Nazis, and put a man on the goddamn moon.

I always have to be reminded that being an abolitionist was somehow also being an ancestor to true leftists.......

[Rockefeller GOP]

When evaluating original Republicans, I think their actual actions, platform and words matter more than some cute letters to one communist, but whatever.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Modern day conservatives cannot claim Lincoln as one of their own obviously, but describing Lincoln, much less the GOP of the 1850s as some sort of proto-Marxist band is even more ridiculous.

Can any modern American partisan really, with a straight face, claim anyone from that time period?  Lol, the issues aren't even remotely the same.