How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

[Meursault]

Probably vote straight GOP since 1856.

You do realize that the GOP and the Democrats have completely switched on most issues since this time?

That's a cute myth liberals like to tell themselves so that they can forget that Democrats championed racism for 130 years.

So is the Republican party still the party of activist government, labor rights, conservation, and business regulation?

When was the Republican Party "pro-labor"?  During Grant, lol?

EDIT: Well aware of left wing Republicans like LaFollette and Borah, but when in the blue hell was the party as a whole "pro-labor"?

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- Abraham Lincoln

Did this translate into much policy action? Not really. There were, however, workerist adjunct organizations to the Republican Party, such as the American Workers League, founded in the early 1850s.

http://www.worker-communist.org/2014/02/01/notes-on-the-early-history-of-american-communism/#more-75

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This idea that the Civil War-era GOP was as ever the Party of the big bourgeoisie is held to only by historical illiterates who insist on a continuous history of the last fifteen decades.

[Meursault]

By the way, leading Republicans like Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips were members of Karl Marx's own International Working Men's Association.

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