It's funny that I said "please don't send me tweets about 'good Republicans'" and then folks tried to claim GOP was good before Trump, which is ahistorical. THE worst racist president in modern history was Reagan, who was also the most corrupt with 181 indictments of his admin.
In fact, Bill Barr, our current AG was AG under Bush1 and his first order of business was to arrange pardons for a bazillion Reagan-Bush folks involved in and indicted in Iran-Contra. Bush1 was involved in myriad covert wars as CIA head. Nixon was in fact a crook.
Eisenhower's first EO was the horrendous EO10450 which outed and fired thousands of lesbians and gay men. Eisenhower --a rabid anti-Communist--executed the Rosenberg and watched Joe McCarthy with glee. So your claims that racists and bigots are "good" is counterfactual.
Reagan-Bush were 12yrs of killing Americans in a pandemic in which I lost 2 of my closest friends. I was arrested protesting those "good" GOP. Reagan created the 3 strikes legislation that put poor Black people in prison. He invented the "welfare queens" myth about Black women.
And if you are going to invoke John McCain, listen to some of his 2008 speeches. Remember he fought making MLK Day a holiday. And John Kasich has the same politics as Mike Pence--but was more brutal to women and gay people as governor than Pence was. Just saying.
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