• venusaur@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Except conservative Republicans led the abolition of slavery. The parties have flipped over time.

      EDIT: republicans of the time were progressive. Democrats were conservatives “preying on the dumbest”.

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        7 months ago

        Those were progressive Republicans. The party Lincoln started was progressive at the time.

        The current Republican party is conservative, but that wasn’t always the case.