Anybody who says anything about this mess we’re in being “unprecedented” just isn’t looking at history hard enough. Exhibit A: The Presidential Election of 1876.

1876 United States presidential election – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

This was the election where the Republicans caved on Reconstruction as part of a compromise that was forced by a Democratic (read current MAGA base) majority that threatened to not certify the election results because they counted votes differently.

Compromise of 1877 – Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

We’re essentially back in Unreconstruction now. Everything today is the result of failed Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Since the Civil War, we have had two institutional political parties with legal and financial advantages against all comers. Don’t call it a Democracy.

Sherman ‘28 – Let Him Finish The Job.