The Decay of America's Republican Party

#376 The Republican Party in America was the ‘progressive’ political party at the time of its founding in 1854, as its raison d’être was the opposition to the expansion of slavery, as epitomized by the United States’ first and globally most famous Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. At that time in the 1850’s, it was a forward-thinking political movement from the Northern States, that believed in the unification of all the States, the abolition of slavery and social and civil rights for African-Americans (both made possible by their winning ‘the civil war', with the Southern Confederate States). The victorious United States under the rule of President Lincoln and his government then took up reunification, abolition of slavery, healing and development, industrialization and infrastructure building. It was a Republican Party that is unrecognizable from today's Republicans who practically stand for the opposite of everything the early Republicans formed the Party for.

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