How the GOP was born

[@Auron12786]

“Who makes up the Republican Party today?” “Donald Trump and those who admire him.” That sums it up perfectly

[@Lottieloves287]

This is the problem. Many in the Republican Party voted for Nikki or Ron. Not everyone likes Trump or will vote for him. You cannot and should not generalize.

[@heinzlockigehaar]

Too many blind followers.

[@BradThePitts]

Wrong. There are countless Republican politicians that don't get along with Trump. This is why it was impossible to predict his VP pick. It is also not remotely plausible that every Republican that votes for Trump likes him fully.

[@BradThePitts]

​@@heinzlockigehaarWeird - I just watched a video that said the same thing about Joe Biden's followers.

[@heinzlockigehaar]

@@BradThePitts have you seen the video that Trump met Putin at Helsinki ? Did he make the American great again there ?

[@janerkenbrack3373]

The Republican party was once progressive. Teddy Roosevelt actually formed the Progressive party after the GOP started to turn corporate.

[@yvonneplant9434]

I think you mean the Bull Moose Party.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@yvonneplant9434 They were the same thing. Bull Moose was a nickname. It's like the GOP is actually the Republican Party.

[@lintoppthomas]

Not progressive party..... He was progressive on monopoly of big business.. Teddy was a conservative

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@lintoppthomas I suggest you read up a bit more. He formed the Progressive Party (nicknamed Bull Moose) and ran against his own chosen successor William Howard Taft because Taft had failed to continue the progressive reforms of the Roosevelt administration. This marked a political turn of the Republican Party, after which becoming increasingly supportive of business. The next big shift was in the second half of the 20th century, when the Democratic Party began to shed its segregationist history, and support greater equality for non-whites.

[@FloofyMinari]

Yup. Southern Democrats were the party of conservative Christian values at the time, but nowadays that most closely resembles the modern Republican Party.

[@TinLe120]

The original Republicans would be appalled at what the modern GOP looks like now.

[@treborretsnom6186]

Lincoln left the party in his first term, he died a unionist not a Republican... Lincoln knew that they are nuts.

[@tylermccann848]

Hard to say, considering slavery has been abolished and people of color are running for office as Republicans.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

@@treborretsnom6186 The Unionist Party is the Republican party renamed, because the end of the civil war. Its the same party pal.

[@treborretsnom6186]

@@ulyssesgrant4324 really?? Then how is it that the Republicans nominated Salmon Chase for president in 1864 pal ?? How was he on the Republican ticket in 1864 ? Are you rewriting history?? A lot of that lately

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

@@treborretsnom6186 He literally withdrew during the Convention. I have no idea what source you are using. There was a radical. Chase did want the Presidency really bad and undermined Lincoln early on, but he was given the Chief Justice seat in late 1864.

[@tulsaguy77]

I’m a lifelong Republican, and I don’t recognize my party anymore. I am “politically homeless” too.

[@Dotteboy816]

The youth took it over , the establishment is still alive at the DNC , if that’s your thing

[@lintoppthomas]

Because you were never a Republican..you were a lite liberal democrat.. I am sure you voted for Obama both times..

[@lintoppthomas]

I dont think so.. You were a liberal lite democrat..and i belive you voted for Obama both times

[@lintoppthomas]

I don't think so.. You were a liberal.. And i strongly believe you voted Obama both times..

[@lintoppthomas]

Do you voted for Obama by compromising Republican Party values??

[@TylerAmolsch]

From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump.

[@freshface2991]

There’s a Prager U video on how ‘evil’ is the Democratic Party because of the past. We should look at now and the future of the GOP, synonymous with MAGA and a cult.

[@andrewspears8891]

You mean the Cult of Trump?

[@NIcholasparker88]

Still the Party of Lincoln!

[@TylerAmolsch]

Not anymore. It’s the party of hate and fear.

[@TimmyTheTinman]

Thaddeus Stevens from my home state of Pennsylvania was an underrated legend and far ahead of his time, he would definitely be a stanch Bernie supporter today and be appalled by today’s Republican Party. It’s also worth mentioning that the Republicans were basically the successor to the Whig Party which collapsed after the 1852 Democratic landslide

[@WillCrabbe]

I don’t know what it was like in 1854 , cept for the books that we were allowed to read back in the 60, 70’s. I have never been or felt so afraid of what America is going through. I’m voting for a free and fair America

[@user-dj3zq3no1rbiteme]

Vote for Joe

[@disastermaster1413]

@@user-dj3zq3no1rbitemejoe is a republican? That explains why Trump is his vice president

[@tennyceb]

Thank you from my heart

[@disastermaster1413]

@@user-dj3zq3no1rbiteme I didn’t know joe was a republican. That explains why trump is his vice president.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

The books that were banned had sexual material for children. BOT

[@bryedtan]

4:00 No they would not recognized it. The Republicans in the 1980s I grew up when I was young do not recognized it today probably never will.

[@LivingtheDRdream]

Exactly, me too, I grew up with the party that stand up against USSR kgb and now is the party that supports an dictator killer kgb Putin

[@kjjohnson24]

The party of Lincoln is now the party of Confederate flags in the Capitol building. Sadly, the irony is completely lost on most in the GOP today…

[@janerkenbrack3373]

They would call Lincoln "woke."

[@firstlast8258]

​@janerkenbrack3373 speak for yourself 😴 🖕

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@firstlast8258 I saw the stars and bars paraded through the Capitol. The party that once fought to end that rebellion now flies that hateful flag. If that is your idea of America, you can stuff it.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

Lincoln's son, Tad actually flew a rebel flag outside the White House window, before his father, spoke to the crowd, gathering outside the White House. Lincoln was more fantasticated by the rebellion then appalled.

[@Buttercup697]

@@ulyssesgrant4324cite your source

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Republicans 1854: We're against slavery "Republicans" 2024: we believe in installing Donald Trump as king of America

[@paulgiarmo3628]

@Tadicuslegion78 Nobody wants him as a king. Just as the President. Your Leftist Democrat talking points are hilarious 😂.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

@@paulgiarmo3628 Its a bot, has to be. People do say that but never go over how Trump would become a dictator.

[@Buttercup697]

@@ulyssesgrant4324I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the judicial branch of the government.

[@Buttercup697]

@@ulyssesgrant4324 I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the judicial branch of the government.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

@@Buttercup697 Oh my the judicial branch, doing unpopular rulings, like they are suppose to do! Oh No!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

"Looking out for Number One"... Politics today... no "public service"...

[@hikaru64]

What a contrast.

[@zacharypeacock6278]

I have been a Republican and voted as such and i have been a Democrat and voted as such. I think both parties or unrecognizable in 2024...

[@JerjerB]

Such a beautiful beginning. Let's hope the change towards a more civil GOP will come again and soon. I'm a conservative who has been made to vote for the Democratic party due to the Republican Party's increasingly naked flirtations with anti-democratic and anti-republican values.

[@Beth-zg6gb]

I have you beat. I was a loyal Republican Party member for 42 years up until DJT was elected. So was my husband. Never again. I’m Voting All Blue All The Way! Probably from now on for good! 🌊🇺🇸💙

[@Nightbird1914]

My Dad, his Dad, and Grandfather were Republicans. G grandfather fought for the Union. Daddy died in 1961. I rarely voted Republican but I didn’t change my registration until Trump. I’m a registered Democrat now and a never Trumper.

[@coby8665]

I'm right there with ya, I left the Republican party in 2021 and am now an Independent.

[@ulyssesgrant4324]

Dude falling for fearmongering, or a bot, either way.

[@libbychang413]

once the party of lincoln...now the party of john wilkes booth...

[@lp-xl9ld]

More like the party of Jefferson Davis

[@NIcholasparker88]

STILL the Party Of Lincoln

[@Peter-jo6yu]

​@@NIcholasparker88 Open your eyes. Stop listening to faux "news"

[@johnweber4577]

Booth had only ever officially been a Know Nothing, so maybe. Lol

[@elishaj.o1134]

It is a shameful irony that the Republican party made a u turn on its political ideology. Lincoln would be appalled!

[@bigcatproductions2789]

Here in Milwaukee We have been paralyzed by the RNC 😟💙💙💙🇺🇸

[@douglascurry171]

Once was a great party

[@Reelunique]

Who makes up the Democratic Party? The wealthiest people in the world. 90% of billionaires on the Forbes list. Trump left and betrayed the oligarchy in favor of the working man. Now their ad dollars pays the media to produce propaganda against him and confuse young Americans. Democrats don’t support worker’s unions they support the union bosses.

[@quarterbackgr]

Love Mo Rocca's segments

[@treborretsnom6186]

Lincoln did not die a Republican... Remember that

[@RoundingThird]

A missed opportunity to tell people about Lincoln’s ‘Wide Awakes.’

[@disastermaster1413]

How the opp was born

[@kaypz]

It’s my first time to find out what GOP means

[@draege626]

Now do a piece on the party switch.

[@NRClips3414]

There wasn't any 😂. Over time the same values support different things.

[@johnellharris1366]

When and if anyone mentions the Republican Party has been hi-jacked (by Trump/MAGA ) this is the meaning .

[@Rickets1911]

I heard that it crawled out from a steaming pile of..

[@TimmyTheTinman]

Not always, the Radical Republicans of the 1860s were the original “squad”

[@Semper_Iratus]

Like you?

[@Rickets1911]

@@Semper_Iratus good comeback

[@appnzllr]

Today Lincoln would be a Democrat

[@ScottGrammer]

Today, Lincoln would move to Canada.

[@Lottieloves287]

That was a great joke! 😂😂

[@Braylenc123]

lol if any of the people alive from that time were transported to today they would definitely move and make their own country

[@onomatopoeia162003]

I don't know what the northern Whigs would have been though.

[@treborretsnom6186]

​@@Lottieloves287Lincoln left the Republican party in his first term, he died a unionist.... Your ignorance is hilarious....😂 Me pointing and laughing at you 👍😂

[@jackbuckley7816]

Interesting history lesson on the origin of the GOP, the basic facts of which I knew already but still found this alot of fun to watch. I hope to visit Ripon someday, making a pilgrimage to that historic schoolhouse. There's a town in Michigan that claims to be the hallowed-spot for the party's creation, a rivalry that continues to this day; however, I think most historians lean toward Ripon as the party's true birthplace. The Michigan town nevertheless has a persuasive claim. It depends on how the criteria is defined. Although such a hope is pure fantasy, I love the idea of my being instrumental in forming a new political party for our current, dismally divisive political era!

[@celestine1964]

What happened to the regular weekly Sunday Morning schedule?

[@pali_aha]

😂 it's still the same on TV . Sunday mornings. 😅

[@penerjemah10]

They dont air it last sunday Due to trump assassination

[@brianjennings1624]

CBS and corporate America, whitewashing trumps fascist GOP.

[@kquintez]

And then they abandoned us

[@AmeriKan_HippiE]

We need to create some new parties instead on continuing to support these clowns. A second independance day. A new republic. The American Reformation Party. Lets go.

[@jeffmonaghan]

I have visited Ripon, Wisconsin 🇺🇲

[@TeddyCavachon]

Prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 Jim Crow segregationists in the South were Democrats. In 1968 former Gov. George Wallace of AL ran for President as an independent and won the popular and Electoral College vote in five Deep South states allowing Nixon to win the Presidency. By the 1972 election enough white Southern voters and elected officials changed party becoming Republicans that Nixon was re-elected in a 49 State Electoral College landslide with 60% of the popular vote. Why did the party of Lincoln which freed the slaves welcome the Southern racists? Because in the early 1970s political pundits had started to predict changing demographics would make the Republican party a permanent minority by 2030. The Northeastern elite descendants of the Founding Fathers realized like the Founding Fathers they needed the votes of Southern states and like the Founding Fathers were willing to to make compromises to get them. The defection of wealthy white southerners to the Republican party left the Democratic Party financially dependent on relatively few wealthy individuals and the Unions. Unfortunately for the Democratic the combination of new environmental regulations and containerized shipping caused shift to producing of steel and aluminum and consumer products made from them reducing its Union Support. I was raised on the South Side of Chicago from 1952 to 1972 and in the summers of 1970 and 1971 between high school and college and my first and second years I worked as a Steel Workers Union member at a rolling mill. By then many of the white workers had fled the city the practice of “block busting” which started after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the creation of HUD and Federally backed mortgages. As in the sub-prime bubble of the early 2000s lenders were happy to give cash back at closing loans to anyone with pulse, many people who had been living on welfare in the “Projects” who bought the houses and got the loans with no ability or attention of paying them. That’s why the formerly working class neighborhoods in Chicago and other Midwest cities became boarded up wastelands by the 1980s. None of the blue collar union guys I worked with at the Mill but most of them were working overtime to send their kids to a good high school in the suburbs and to college where many of them - including many now in Congress -became young Republicans. Their kids also raised in the suburbs were the ones who elected Trump because there was little the Democratic Party stood for they could relate to. It had increasing come to depend on and pander to minorities and newly naturalized immigrants win elections, a reason Obama was nominated in 2008, re-elected in 2012 and why Trump beat Clinton in 2016 on the wave of white fear or losing control. Biden won in 2020 in large part because Harris was on the ticket as VP which did motivate the base back then, but she was nearly invisible to the pubic and rarely mentioned in the press during Biden’s first term. Had Biden stayed in the race, Trump as bat-sh*t crazy as he obviously is, probably would have won for the same reason Clinton lost - lack of interest and motivation to vote on the part of the base the minority base the Democrats now entirely rely on.

[@Rambletambleforever]

They almost had a non biased take. It’s not an insult to republican calling it trumps party. That’s our presidential candidate. That only sounds insulting to folks with TDS

[@tparbs]

Comparing large corporations to slavery is ridiculous.

[@BenG123]

Nothing like a pair of cynnical democrats to state who makes up the GOP party. Perhaps you need to watch a few speeches at the RNC to learn a few things. Look at the crowd, listen to the speeches. Understand before posting this kind of propaganda.

[@richstex4736]

Your comment lacks specificity, therefore it lacks relevance.

[@BenG123]

@@richstex4736 And yours has it?

[@richstex4736]

@@BenG123 Yes, a defined subject & a stated reason.

[@Reelunique]

Who makes up the Democratic Party? The wealthiest people in the world. 90% of billionaires on the Forbes list. Trump left and betrayed the oligarchy in favor of the working man. Now their ad dollars pays the media to produce propaganda against him and confuse young Americans. Democrats don’t support worker’s unions they support the union bosses.

[@BenG123]

@@richstex4736 let me know when you have a point. Otherwise worthless.

[@billycloudy9078]

Dude, I’m so sick of people saying Ripon Wisconsin is the birthplace of Republican party? I love how people don’t know history. There was a Democrat/Republican Party years before the Republican Party existed. But it dissolved and became the Democrat party we all know today! There was also a nationalist Republican party before the so-called GOP existed and trust me I live in Ripon, Wisconsin And I have for many years!

[@talivato]

You're wrong. Living in Ripon makes you an expert as somebody who drinks coke and claiming its history is wrong, and saying: Trust me, I drink coke.

[@KuominMessenger129]

This party has no different stance on Native Americans or sterilization laws. It also signed three notorious immigration laws: the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), Emergency Quota Act (1921), and immigration act of 1924. This party is just not as socially liberal than it was.

[@bonghunezhou5051]

Many other places claim the "birthplace" for the (formerly) Party of Lincoln - among them Jackson, Michigan.

[@funkhousefevertrio7116]

They should have interviewed Michael F Holt. Better informed about how complex the 1850s were. This interpretation is far too manichean

[@Supremeteamcaptain]

Republicans today: we are an extension of Netanyahu’s Likud party

[@samuledarconi2927]

That could be fairly accurate.....

[@moralfortitude...2217]

*grand ol' phonies*

[@ResearchPapers1]

People saying "original republicans would be appaled", Please note that times have changed alot. If GOP didnt change, it wouldnt exist today.

[@57highland]

Of course. But the GOP's changes have been for the worse: the "Southern Strategy" of the 1960s. The courting and embrace of the "Moral Majority" and the "Christian Coalition." And, more recently, Donald Trump and MAGA.

[@bigcatproductions2789]

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[@garywidom]

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[@jerryiverson8872]

These comments about how sad the GOP party has become become are cracking me up😂 Y’all are acting like the Democratic Party is some sort of beacon of truth. The democrats agenda has nothing to do with improving infrastructure and improving our economy. It’s all about social agendas and pronouns. It’s about politicians and their families lining their pockets. Don’t point your finger at anyone else until you recognize your party is as much or more a part of the problem than the GOP.

[@57highland]

Politicians and their families lining their pockets? Both parties "Guilty" and have been forever. And "social" issues are inevitably political issues. No way around that. And "improving our economy"? How about the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Meltdown of 2008, each occurring under Republican presidents.

[@QueenBDreamwalker]

"People felt politically homeless" plantations & corporations have similar impact in US still a program of the many who serve the few with profits not benefitting those who create the wealth 🤔✍🏾🇺🇸💜🌎🕊

[@davidcottrell1308]

How the GOP died: MAGA infection.

[@Reelunique]

Who makes up the modern Democratic Party? The wealthiest people in the world. 90% of billionaires on the Forbes list. Trump left and betrayed the oligarchy in favor of the working man. Now their ad dollars pays the media to produce propaganda against him. Democrats don’t support worker’s unions they support the union bosses. You’re ignorant to think backroom deals aren’t happening considering Biden has ten times as many super pacs many of which are controlled by foreign companies.

[@whatabouttheearth]

😂 Ironically, the Republicans derived from a split off from the Democrat side of Jeffersons Democrat-Republican party 🤷 go figure. And then the Democrats also came from the Democrat side of the Democrat-Republican party. Fun fact: ALOT of the early Republicans were VERY vocal about being against capitalism. The Democrats are complicated because there were several different groupings, mainly southern Democrats (later to become Republicans in the 1960s) and northern Democrats.

[@CRiver396]

How is it a new party when the Democratic-Republican party already existed?

[@UncleSam-USofA]

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[@firstlast8258]

Gawd bless Murica 🤓 🖕

[@ObeseCaligula]

You missed! 😎

[@martinlopp7942]

From Biden will win!

[@whatabouttheearth]

😂 Ironically, the Republicans derived from a split off from the Democrat side of Jeffersons Democrat-Republican party 🤷 go figure. And then the Democrats also came from the Democrat side of the Democrat-Republican party. Fun fact: ALOT of the early Republicans were VERY vocal about being against capitalism. The Democrats are complicated because there were several different groupings, mainly southern Democrats (later to become Republicans in the 1960s) and northern Democrats.