Even if you can trace certain threads through each era, you cannot lose sight of how different – and diverse – the coalitions of 1860 and 1960 were from each other, let alone today.

Even if the party of 1960 still had the grand children and great grandchildren of the southern slaveocrats of 1860, and even if those children were still racists, the fact remains that they were in a wild and unwieldy coalition with ethnic blue collar Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and liberal internationalists in a way that was not true a hundred years before. My Sicilian grandparents were straight ticket Dem voters in 1960, and I find it kinda hard to blame them: the party as it stood then was just a more natural fit for their interests and outlook than Republicans (still functioning mainly in the Dewey-Lodge-Rockefeller mold) were at that point in time. And I think that is the Democratic Party that RFK Jr is trying to remember/evoke is *that* party.

But if white blue collar people in 1960 could feel with some justification that the Democratic Party could represent their interests, they sure as heck don’t think that way today. If my grandparents were alive today, I feel pretty confident they’d be voting for Donald Trump.

I was in the Tea Party movement and have watched most of the people we elected become part of the swamp. Marco Rubio is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of the inner circles of the swamp.

I don’t have a litmus test like many conservatives. I’ll work with anyone on a single cause if they’re on my side on that cause, but I watch for them making a move to stab me in the back.

“And now the Democrat party is stuck with not Gavin Newsome, failed governor of the Communist state of California. No, no, the Democrat party taken over by the worst anti Americans among them has been forced to accept a person for the presidency of the United States of America just because she is a woman and has a slight skin tone who is wholly unqualified to run a donut shop. Should be an interesting couple of months, stand by.”

https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/as-broken-as-broken-can-be

You are so right! The Democrat Party, since its inception, has worked to undermine our founding principles. I would not claim the every Democrat is evil, as there are many that naively promote or vote for various Democrat policy positions because they genuinely believe they will help the country.

However, the Democrat Party elites are malevolent, and they have been working toward Leftist/socialist goals for at least 100 years. While the Kennedy’s might not have been quite as radical as the leaders of today, they were a part of this effort.

This is the same party that started the civil war, and then undermined reconstruction, initiated Jim Crow, killed the Indians, resegregated the military, controlled the KKK, threw the Japanese into concentration camps, determined that not growing wheat impacted interstate commerce, etc., etc., etc.

Joseph Kennedy– where did he get all his money? Quite the nazi-loving jew hater was he.