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You understand it was Republicans who ended slavery, while Democrats fought a war to prolong it as long as they could?

Yes. And that’s as relevant to this discussion as the history of slavery among the Homo Erectus.

What matters is what’s being done today.

So what are those benevolent republicans doing about slavery, foreign and domestic, today, tomorrow or at any point in the next decade?

Such an understanding must of course consider the Whig party. You understand that, right?