The GOP is one of the most dire threats this country has ever faced

[RZM]

111. That seems like quite a leap

Off the top of my head, here are the political figures I would consider to be most important in the Republican party:

Mitt Romney, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Reince Preibus, and Jim DeMint.

On the ideological side, you've got:

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Roger Ailes (just to name a few).

Of all of those, DeMint and McConnell are the only ones I know of who would be even be candidates for being descended from slaveowners. And I've seen no evidence of that in the case of those two. Remember that slaveowners comprised a fairly small percentage of the southern population.

Perhaps they are better represented on the fundraising side. But who knows . . . the money comes from a lot of places.

I would guess relatively few prominent Republicans have very many slaveowning ancestors.