Questioning witnesses in the first impeachment hearing staged by House Republicans, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted each to say they were not presenting “firsthand witness accounts” of crimes committed by Joe Biden.
The New York Democrat also accused Republicans of fabricating supposed evidence of corruption involving the president and his surviving son, Hunter Biden.
Republicans on the House oversight committee called three witnesses, Democrats one.
Nah. Lincoln was the republican president 169 years ago. Also Teddy Roosevelt was pretty cool. Trust busting and all.
There are exceptions but for most of that time it’s been the party of hateful douchebags.
For almost a century of the 169 years posted, Republicans were the more progressive of the two parties.
The parties did not align as-is until the Civil Rights Act was passed and the racists left the Democrats as a result.
Democrats during the Hoover era were famously corrupt, for instance, and them refusing to work with Hoover to prevent his re-election almost certainly worsened the Great Depression.
It’s important to remember that the parties were originally both coalitions - that’s why the same Republicans who are racist as fuck today still call the Dems the “party of slavery” - it’s bullshit and the smart ones know it, but most people don’t understand the history.
I did not say the Democratic party was any better at any point either. They’re shades of shit one at times more “progressive” than the other.