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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We all know how the history books will portray MAGA. Racist misogynist Trump cult duped by a narcissist’s propaganda. It’s clear as day to the rest of us and the world. But you keep playing mental gymnastics with yourself so you can sleep at night.  [/quote]

Nah, the racist provocateurs have attention span of a gnat and are totally politically transactional.  Just look at the Democrats pivot from the party of slavery to civil rights; all the blacks had to give them was to rewrite the immigration laws so that Democrats could find other sources of cheap labor to exploit.  The Northern Democrats literally never had to change.[/quote]

This is a distortion, and to try and claim the Democrats of today are still exactly the same as Democrats of the 1860s or the segregationist Dixiecrats and so on is not grounded in reality and makes zero historical or political sense whatsoever.

Before the Civil War, Southern Democrats defended slavery while Northern Democrats were split; by the 1930s–1960s, the party fractured again as Democratic presidents pushed civil‑rights legislation and many Southern Democrats left the party entirely. Black voters had already begun shifting toward Democrats during the New Deal, long before 1965, and immigration reform wasn’t a “trade” for their support. The 1965 law mainly abolished race‑based quotas and prioritized family reunification; it wasn’t designed as a cheap‑labor pipeline.

Political coalitions in the U.S. have repeatedly realigned, which is why modern parties don’t map cleanly onto their 19th‑century versions. Northern Democrats changed significantly over the 20th century, the South moved from Democratic to Republican, and Black voters moved from Republican to Democratic. Treating these shifts as a single, unbroken strategy ignores the documented ideological changes, internal conflicts, and demographic realignments that actually shaped both parties.[/quote]

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