(October 20, 2019 at 3:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(October 20, 2019 at 3:07 pm)Jehanne Wrote: It is ironic that the Republicans of the 19th-century were at least willing to try Andrew Johnson on far less grievous "offenses" (namely, for having a political backbone) than the open-felonies of Donald Trump, even in an era where political corruption was the norm.
Of course Republicans were willing to try Johnson. He was a Democrat.
The more things, change, the more they stay the same.
Boru
Of course, the Democrats, then and now, were the original Republicans, the party of Thomas Jefferson.