The Tea Party Meld 12-30-24

MAGA had its beginnings in the Tea Party in 2010. The Republican Party was split between the “Establishment” RINOs and the Tea Party Republicans. The 2016 Trump campaign was rebranded as MAGA to allow Republicans to close ranks. Republicans united to support Trump to close the split. 

I received the post below from the Cherokee County GA Tea Party Leader who has rebranded as a MAGA Republican group to recruit volunteers to secure the 2024 Trump Election. The RNC was able to recruit over 200,000 volunteers nation-wide to make the 2024 Election secure. 

Republican Party History by Conrad Quagliaroli, 12-10-24

Most Republicans do not know the history of the Republican Party. And let me tell you it is a glorious history! I took the following notes from a short 5 minute video from Prager U. *Professor Carol Swain, who is African-American* had this to say on that video;

The Republican Party was founded in 1854 and it’s 1856 platform was pro Black, and pro women, in that it stated that it planned to abolish both slavery and polygamy.

In the 1870’s Republicans passed the FIRST civil rights acts, the;

a. The 13th amendment which freed the slaves

b. The 14th amendment which gave Blacks their citizenship

c. The 15th amendment which gave Blacks the right to vote

Most people don’t realize there were two civil rights movements*, one in

the 1870’s and one, 90 years later in the 1960’s. And it was the Democrat

Party that fought fiercely against both of them, with Filibusters and other

measures. Conversely, it was the Republican Party that overwhelming

supported both.

In 1870 the first Black congressman was elected to congress as a Republican

Also in 1870 the first Black senator was elected to congress as a Republican

*Until 1935, every Black congressman was a Republican

*The first female member of congress was a Republican

*The first Hispanic governor was a Republican

*The first Hispanic Senator was a Republican

*The first Asian Senator was a Republican 

*In 1920 after about 50 years of Democrat opposition, the Republicans who

had large majorities in both the House and Senate, pressured Democrat

president Woodrow Wilson into giving women the right to vote.

Only 59% of House Democrats and 41% of Senate Democrats voted to give women

the vote, compared to 91% of House Republicans and 82% of Senate

Republicans. Yes you read that right, in 1920, the vote was 91% of

Republicans to 59% of Democrats in the House and 82% of Republicans to 41%

of Democrats in the Senate.

The war on women was definitely led by the Democrats beginning with the

early days of the Suffrage Movement. It was the Republicans who led the

fight and gave women the right to vote, not the Democrats!

*In 1936 Democrat president FDR snubbed the great African-American Olympian

Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics, by NOT inviting

him to the White House, ONLY inviting his white team members.

*In the 1950’s Republican president Eisenhower sent the National Guard to

Arkansas to escort Black children to school because Democrat governor

Faubus would not allow them in the white schools.

*The 1960 Civil Rights Act was Filibustered by 18 Democrat senators while

EVERY Republican senator supported it.

*The 1964 Civil Rights Act was also filibustered by the Democrats and only

passed because of strong Republican support.

*The main resistance to the civil rights act of 1964 were Democrats, but

Progressives would rewrite textbooks creating the impression Republicans

were the ones in opposition.

*The votes on the civil rights laws in the 1960s speak for themselves.

a. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

House vote passed with *63%* of Democrats vs* 80%* of Republicans -17 points *higher*

Senate vote; *69%* of Democrats vs *82%* of Republicans-13 points higher* 

b. The Voting Rights Act of 1965

     House vote; 78% Democrats vs 84% Republican, 6 points higher

     Senate vote; 73% of Democrats vs 94% of Republicans, 21 points higher

Republicans voted for the 1960’s civil rights laws in higher percentages than Democrats. Had Republicans voted for the civil rights laws in the 1960s in the same percentages as Democrats, the 1960s civil rights laws would *NOT* have passed.

The fact is, Republicans were more responsible for the *1960s civil rights laws than Democrats, JUST as they were for the *FIRST civil rights laws in the 1870s.

Professor Swain makes a great point on the video when she states that Republicans have done little for Blacks since the 1960’s because they have treated them as EQUAL to every other group and therefore believed they were as COMPETENT as other Americans to determine their lives. And therefore did not need government telling them how to live.

Coincidentally, that is EXACTLY what Frederick Douglass suggested in a 1865 speech to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, when he answered a question; What must be done for the former slaves?  “Do nothing with us! Let the Negro alone.  If you will only untie his hands and give him a chance, I think he will live” (and this is when African-Americans had just been freed and were much less prepared than they are today.)

The history of the Democrats proves they always have, and still do, regard Blacks as too incompetent to fend for themselves.

The very fact that Democrats think it racist of Republicans to require a photo ID for EVERYONE to vote, is pretty obvious proof they think Blacks are not smart enough to get a photo ID…how racist is that!

Professor Carol Swain knows what she is talking about, she is a former professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.

In *Dinesh D’Souza’s book “Hillary’s America*, the secret history of the Democratic Party” he makes two very good points;

*#1. Democrat Party crimes were blamed on all “Americans**” *The Democrats,

the media and our education system, from K-12 through college, have shifted

the sins/crimes of the Democrat Party from the Democrats where if belongs

to “Americans” as a whole. When in fact, it was the Democrats who fought

for slavery, it was the Democrats who created the Ku Klux Klan,

segregation, Jim Crow laws and did the lynching, NOT Americans! Half the

country, the Republican half, fought against those things from their

beginning in 1854, through the 1960’s, till today, fighting for vouchers

for African-American children stuck in failing inner city schools.

 

#2. The Big Switch is a Big Lie! Racism didn’t cause the South to turn

from a Democratic stronghold to a Republican one. Reaganomics did!

 

Again, the Democrats, the media and our education system claim a big switch

occurred in the Southern States when all the racist Southerners switched

from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party because of the civil

rights legislation in the 1960s, and Nixon’s Southern Strategy in 1968,

that sought out the votes of the racists in the South.

The fact is, that is a complete lie as demonstrated by simple logic and the

dates when the Republicans were first elected as Governors and Senators

since 1964 in the Southern States. Plus the dates the Republican Party

became the majority party in the Senate and House in each of the Southern

States.

The truth is Racism had nothing to do with the South becoming Republican. Most of the

South did not turn Republican till after Reagan was elected. As you can

see, the average year the first Republican since 1964 was elected Governoror Senator was;

Governor-1987 average (and 4 were not elected till after 1990).

U.S. Senator-1979 average (and 4 were not elected till after 1990).

And the average year the Republicans became the majority since 1964 in the state House & Senate was;

Senate-2005 average

House-2006 average

Think about it…look at these dates. They are long after the racism, segregation and fire hoses of the 60s were over and done with!

Governor*-1987- 23 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed,

U.S. Senator*-1979- 15 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed,

State Senate majority -2005- 41 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed,

State House majority*-2006- 42 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed,

About Nixon’s Southern Strategy in 1968

*First*; Nixon’s Southern Strategy had nothing to do with going after the racist vote. In the 1968 election George Wallace from Alabama was running and he had the racist vote all wrapped up. It would have been senseless for Nixon to even try to compete with Wallace for the racist vote in the South.

*Second;* It would have been really stupid to try for the racist vote given the fact that he would have lost two votes in the rest of the country for every racist vote he got in the South.

I highly recommend D’Sousa’s book. About 65% of it is devoted to the despicable history of the Democratic Party, from stealing land from the Indians (President Andrew Jackson…a Democrat, was responsible for the Trail of Tears, NOT AMERICANS) right up till it’s history today, forcing minority children to suffer in failing inner city schools, thereby dooming them to fail. How despicable is that?

Comments

I used History is to understand how slavery continued when African Kings learned that they could profit from selling Prisoners of War into slavery in the 1500s. Demand for cheap labor was high because agriculture was booming in the Americas. These Kings copied the Roman system for controlling dissenters. The Greeks and Persians preferred to win them over.

      Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader