@Absalom
I beg to differ! IF you had said since Calvin Coolidge you would have been more correct.
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Repeating, all are entitled to their opinions which I completely reject.
The GOP emerged in 1856 w/Fremont from California.
From it's very first days it had absolutely nothing to do w/Conservatism.
It was a political entity of the Northern Mercantile Class opposed to slavery.
It's early pillars, continuing all through its ascendancy from Lincoln to Hoover;
when it dominated the Presidency, Congress and SCOTUS appointments, were:
* opposition to States Rights and advocacy of Centralized Government.
* strong support for trade Protectionism and rejection of Free Trade.
* Judicial advocacy in support of executive and legislative actions.
* Corporate taxation to replace duties, excises and tariffs.
Our only honorable conservative party was the Agrarian and Rural Democrats
of Rutledge, Henry, Lee, Madison among others; fatally tarred by slavery which
sadly led to it's demise.
Add to that, a handful from the Federalist Party, and that constitutes the
sum total of the conservative presence in our political history.