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Yavin4

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1. Research the origin story of the Republican party and it will shock you.

Reply to erronis (Original post)

Wed May 13, 2020, 05:42 PM

May 2020

The party was started as an Abolitionist party. There was a faction of Radical Republicans who thought that Lincoln was too soft on the Confederacy. It will blow your mind.

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There is not one (r)epuglicon party. There is the former GOP and a parasite that has taken over. [View all] erronis May 2020 OP

Research the origin story of the Republican party and it will shock you. Yavin4 May 2020 #1

They are the Party of Joe McCarthy dlk May 2020 #2

It's called Magats. Cha May 2020 #3

I disagree. What we call The Republican Party has morphed into one big parasitic, treasonous abqtommy May 2020 #4