The Republican Party today are the heirs of the Confederacy, nothing more, nothing less

[Jack the Greater]

If they were brave and honest they would claim the mantle, but they are cowardly and deceitful.

[DemocraticPatriot]

1. No, they are just too damned stupid

to see the resemblance. None of them studied US history.

[pressbox69]

2. General

Bobby Lee Trump and Stonewall McConell come to mind.

[TrollBuster9090]

3. Their base knows it, and owns it. It's only the polished leaders who refuse to say so in public.

[Walleye]

4. Absolutely. Explains why Canada doesn't have these problems

[Irish_Dem]

5. They never stopped fighting, they hate Yankees.

If you have ever lived in the south, you can hear the derision in their voices as they talk about northerners.

No remorse, no regret at all about starting a war to maintain slavery.

[anarch]

6. no remorse and no regret b/c they still think the South was in the right

and they still think white supremacy should always be the law of the land for the U.S.; anyone who would deny it on their side is just kidding themselves, that's the essential platform of their party, and why they don't seem to have any particular policies or agenda aside from "do whatever dear leader says," b/c they aren't quite comfortable saying the truth out loud.

[brooklynite]

7. You were fine until you said "nothing less"

The evangelical Christian movement didn't have its roots in the confederacy.

[anamnua]

8. The irony is that back in those days

the repubs were the goodies (founded as the anti-slavery party) and the dems were the baddies.