When we remove the words "Democrat" and "Republican" and substitute them for Liberal and Conservative, we get a much clearer picture. The liberal notion that people shouldn't own people started the Civil War when angry conservatives declared they'd sooner quit the union than give up their (human) property. When that failed, Conservatives at least tried to maintain the status quo of Blacks being subhumans not entitled to all the other rights that go along with not being property, and the Liberals fought a hundred years to reverse that, finally passing laws requiring that Blacks enjoy the same freedoms as Whites, over the opposition of Conservatives. The Conservatives have slowly chipped away at those rights, and now, we have Conservatives rioting in the streets to bring back not only the disrespect of Black rights, but Gay, Jew, Hispanic, Muslim, and...well, rights of anyone else who disagrees with them, including other Whites!