"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 evermore 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.
There is nothing liberal about keeping the Black man down. However, in the original sense of the word, Republicans are the classical liberals — the ones who historically fought to expand freedom, opportunity, and self-determination.
Even with tax policy, Republicans generally recognize that taxation can become incremental slavery. Democrats have rarely found a tax they didn’t want to increase, and high taxation has often been used as a tool to centralize power."
