What is missing from that is the acknowledgement that Joe Republican has forgotten that in the past it was Republicans that helped with many if not most of those issues.
No, what you're not getting is that Joe Republican denigrates in extreme terms those who had worked and fought so hard to provide him with a decent life. And he denigrates them so savagely regardless of who they were or what political party they were a part of, even the ones who were Republicans. And that he is so deluded as to believe that he got where he is with no help from anybody else. I have actually met people in the wild who think that and whom I would love to see dropped all alone, naked, and with zero supplies into a wilderness so we can come back later to see the marvelous civilization that they built all by themselves. We really should at least give them a steel knife, but that would deprive them of the joy and personal satisfaction of not having to depend on anybody else.
IOW, that piece is not about actual history, but rather the deluded world-view of modern Republicans.
And from what I understand, both major parties were courting Eisenhower and he didn't really have any strong ideological ties with the GOP.
Today's Republican have no connection to the Grand Old Party.
Amen to that, brother! The wing-nut fringe has taken over. Looks like we may be heading for a 3 or 4 party system: progressives, corporation-moderates (of both colors, or not), and the wing-nuts (including the theocratic Christians eager to brown-nose up to the Anti-Christ for the promise of secular power).
PS
A Repugnican troll tried to throw the Dixie-crats at me to proclaim that the Democratic Party is the party of slavery and racism. I reminded him that a lot has changed in 1.5 centuries (as in former Mexican President Portillo's remark of "It's been a long time since we've worn feathers.") and I challenged him to go to a KKK rally and start pulling their hoods off looking for a Democrat -- unfortunately, under Trump they feel so emboldened that they have stopped wearing hoods.
There is history, things and parties change, and there is a history of how a party has changed. A review of how the two major parties have changed should be interesting.
Edited by dwise1, : PS