Yes, Alfred seems fixated on whether there is a D or an R next to someone's name, rather than who they are, what they stand for, or what they actually do in the political arena.

He doesn't understand the Democratic coalition that FDR put together of Southern whites, labor unions, liberals, farmers, ethnic and racial minorities (especially Catholics, Jews and African Americans) and how that coalition split over the question of civil rights for African Americans. He ignores Nixon's Southern Strategy, and the realignment of white southern politicts. 

There is a reason David Duke, the white nationalist, politician, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, convicted felon, and former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan switched his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican.