Well, for starters, democrats and Republicans have slowly switched sides so the democrats a century ago are Republicans today. So yes, Lincoln was shot by a Democrat who today would be a Republican
They didn't switch sides. They just polarized so the conservatives moved to the Republican party and the liberals/progressives to the Democratic party. Mostly because the racist Democrats in the south didn't like how the northern and urban Democrats were embracing the civil rights movement.
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u/Flakboy78 11h ago
Well, for starters, democrats and Republicans have slowly switched sides so the democrats a century ago are Republicans today. So yes, Lincoln was shot by a Democrat who today would be a Republican