Of course they do. All Democrats ever talk about is diversity. That doesn't mean that the GOP supports racism. That is a ridiculous leap, to extrapolate out that the party that panders to minorities less, somehow means they are racist. It just means they are pandering elsewhere, for different votes. Democrats are trying to pass off their election strategy as somehow based in morality. It isn't. They just want the votes, as evidenced by what they actually DO for minorities, once they have their vote: NOTHING.
First of all...bigotry is not on the political spectrum. It lives on all sides, left, right, up and down. I never said a thing about the left in my quote.
Second of all, I said DEMOCRATS are responsible for slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the REAL KKK that lynched and murdered people. Those are just facts, no matter how inconvenient they may be.
The Dixiecrats abandoned the party decades ago. It's almost like the party is different today. And I seriously doubt that the protesters removing statues today are thinking "we have to retroactively make Democrats look better" or something. It's a stain on the nation's past, not just Democrats.
Also, one party right now is actively trying to suppress minority voters: if someone was interested in maintaining a Jim Crow-style paradigm, who the hell do you think they would vote for? You think the historical Democrats that created the racist system would be voting for the party of Obama and (according to right-wingers) BLM?
What are you on about with this switching? NO prominent Republican ever switched sides. The racist Democrats and former Democrat Segregationists remained Democrat until their dying days. There was no "switch". States that used to slightly lean DNC now slightly lean RNC. The RNC has never supported the bigotry of the Democrats, in any way. That is a lie.
Just removing a statue is not erasing history. If you talk about destroying statues and removing names and events from books - yes, that is erasing history.
Putting a statue into another place to no longer glorify it is something different entirely. And that's what most are advocating for.
These people just destroying them on their own are obviously wrong and breaking the law.