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They never were.
Well...they LITERALLY were at one point, but that was a long time ago now.
I think I was half asleep when I wrote that. I more or less meant the Republican party since the Southern Strategy.
Edit: Thinking about it more, I think I skimmed over the "party of Lincoln" part entirely. As for the "party of small government" part, I think that idea started with Reagan, so yeah, I really do think they were never the party of small government.
The whole argument of states rights is 100% a loaf of bullshit.
Anything you’ve heard other wise is a lie.
The original argument was we believe in state’s rights….. to have slavery. That’s what republicans are saying when they use the states rights argument, they believe slavery should be legal.
I’m not kidding. If you are republican you are literally a fucking racist pig. It’s not an exaggeration, it’s not debatable. Create another party if you think you are not a racist, sexist, xenophobic literal antichrist. The Republican Party is 100% all of these things.
"As we say in Germany, if there's a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
There's no excuse. If you are a voting republican, you are responsible for the ongoing train wreck of rights your party has become.
Even harkening back to their third party days under Lincoln this isn't true.