By Daniel Wiseman
Spend any time with the Republican Party and one realizes
fairly quickly that the main thing holding it together is its opposition to the
lunacy of the Democratic Left, and that we need some sort of political
realignment to save the country.
Born amidst the collapse of the economic protectionist Whig Party in pre-Civil War America, the Republican Party tasked itself with saving the Union and destroying the secessionist South. The Republican forbearers were the original Federalists, such as John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, who believed in a strong national government to unite the States.
By waging the Civil War, Republican President Abraham
Lincoln, who happened to be a reluctant abolitionist, concurrently freed the
slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. It is little remembered that ending
slavery was a consequence of the Civil War, and not originally its cause.
Strikingly, the Republican Party in 1865, therefore, succeeded in ending
America’s “original sin,” the institution of slavery. Fast forward 100 years,
the GOP righted a second wrong by providing the necessary votes and moral
clarity to extend Civil Rights to blacks in the Segregationist South after the
Second World War. It is a cruel irony that Black America, which votes about 90
percent Democrat, mostly loathes and distrusts the Republican Party and shows
little gratitude for its two overarching achievements.
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