Conservatives have always been the bad guys in the usa. Parties don't matter

I somehow keep getting bamboozled into learning about US history or politics while I sit on the toilet and I don't know how to feel about it.

Not only that, the Republican Party specifically tried to win the racist vote with the Southern Strategy rather than just let them go unrepresented and die out as a political bloc.

This is one of those things that will elicit foaming of the mouth from tankies but I’ve never quite figured out why. I suspect it may be that they have their own special meaning with the words liberal and conservative.

The numbers are close-ish to correct if you are looking only at House/Senate voting. They still needed to be ratified by 3/4ths of states and these numbers clearly ignore what the voting results in each state was. They also did not have 100% Republican support, but close. Democrat support of 0% for the 14th and 15th amendments appears to be accurate.

Also worth mentioning that all 3 of those amendments passed in just 6 years. It's a very specific moment in history.

The parties swapped political orientations in the 1930's-60's. Before the 30's, the progressives were called Republicans and the conservatives were called Democrats.

So, under Teddy, the Republican Party was the progressive party. No gymnastics needed.

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If nixon Wouldn't have don'e Watergate or the racist shit or privatization of health care he could have been remembered as a great president.

I know you got the "they're" wrong, but oddly your sentence half works. Although it suggests that they have been wrongly accused of suggesting "the switch" exists

Grammar is more and more important in a typed world

One party was REALLY upset when we tried to take down Confederate statues.

This is aimed at “libruhls”.