They stopped being the "Party of Lincoln" 50 years ago. You should just stop calling them that.

[DetlefK]

150 years ago they became the "Party of Lincoln."

50 years ago they became the "Party of the Southern Strategy."

1 year ago they became the "Party of Trump."



If you call them the "Party of Lincoln", you further their propaganda that they still are something which they clearly are no longer.

[democratisphere]

1. "GOP" representing "Greed Of Putin"

Transition from our former democracy to a dictatorship.

[Hoyt]

2. Ticks me off when some ignorant white winger starts that "Party of Lincoln" crud.

[kwassa]

4. They stopped all the way back in 1877, actually, abandoning Reconstruction.

The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the national government pulling the last federal troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. The compromise involved Democrats who controlled the House of Representatives allowing the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect. The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida. As president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many white Republicans also left, and the "Redeemer" Democrats took control. They already dominated most other state governments in the South. What was exactly agreed is somewhat contested as the documentation is scanty.[1]

Black Republicans felt betrayed as they lost power and were subject to discrimination and harassment to suppress their voting. At the turn of the 20th century, most black people were effectively disenfranchised by state legislatures in every southern state, despite being a majority in some.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1877

[Wounded Bear]

5. More like the "Party of Lynchin'" nt

[flamingdem]

6. Democrats have let the Repukes get away with using Party of Lincoln

for way too long!

Now it matters and we must not even give them that conceit