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Originally posted by lendaddy
As a side note, I cannot help but laugh when libs try to take credit for civil rights, especially regarding slavery! Hillariously backwards.
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Aren't you confusing 'Republican' with 'conservative'?
Ending slavery was a Free Soil Party, then Republican party movement, but not a 'conservative' one. Likewise for the early suffrage movement.
Interestingly the term 'conservative' was first used in a political sense by the French