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Oh, how I hate it when someone I detest is correct … even if he doesn’t tell the whole story.<\/p>\n

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas delivered a historical truth this week while talking to the Fox News Channel. The Republican said that the Democratic Party is the party of the Ku Klux Klan. He said Democrats — not Republicans — have a history of racism and scorn of minority Americans.<\/p>\n

Sure, Ted. I get that. Southern Democrats resisted the enactment of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts of the 1960s; prior to that, some Democrats bolted their mainstream party to form something called the “Dixiecrat Party,” and then ran the late Sen. Strom Thurmond for president in 1948; Thurmond would later leave the Democratic Party to become a Republican. What’s more, Democratic history of racial intolerance goes many years before that.<\/p>\n

Indeed, President Lyndon Johnson faced fierce opposition from within his Democratic Party to enact the civil rights legislation. He enlisted political help from his Senate Republican<\/em> friends to push them through to his signature.<\/p>\n

But times and policies can change. <\/a>They did with the Democratic Party. Democrats “evolved” over time.<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to talk about historical perspective. It’s quite another to relate politics and policy in real time.<\/p>\n

Cruz’s comments came after Senate Republicans shut down a speech by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was reading a letter by the late Coretta Scott King;\u00a0Warren used the letter to state her opposition to Jeff Sessions becoming the next U.S. attorney general.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cruz spoke correctly about Democrats’ sordid history. It’s understandable, too, that he would ignore how the Democratic Party has evolved into a more inclusive organization.<\/p>\n

It’s also understandable that he would ignore how his own Grand Old Party has become, well, a bit less<\/em> inclusive.<\/p>\n

I think it’s fair to wonder what President Abraham Lincoln would think today<\/em> of the political party that carries his name.<\/p>\n\n

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