The Democratic Party’s evolution from slave codes to bureaucratic codes is not a story of moral repentance, but of adaptation. The control systems changed, but the instinct to control grew ever more clever. It never morally improved. Never once.
The Republican record, while imperfect, shows more consistency in defending individual liberty. As Frederick Douglass famously said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Republicans have built policies for strong children. Democrats have built systems that keep too many broken. They grift the system that promotes and rewards that brokenness.
