ok but no one is going to talk about the fact that the democratic and republican parties slowly switched platforms between 1860 to 1930. So technically the democrats of the 1860s had views that aligned with republicans of today. so the democrats he’s talking about are modern day republicans basically. That’s why when people say “republicans freed the slaves” they’re right, but they’re omitting something important.

The most marked switch came when Democrats picked up civil rights. The South switched to the Republican party because they were not willing to support that. The modern demographic of the Republican party was built specifically from an opposition to civil rights.