Overcoming the past not easy for president

Democrats and socialists have a consistent ability to turn the truth upside down.

Democrats were the party of slavery, divisiveness, hatred and violence. The Democrats divided the country by seceding from the union. They started the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter. Their treatment of Union solders was one of the ugliest chapters of the war. After the war, the Democrats were the party of Jim Crow laws, segregation, the KKK, lynchings, poll tax, voter intimidation, and white-only restrooms, public drinking fountains and restaurants.

The Democrat Woodrow Wilson was possibly the most bigoted president in U.S. history.

The Democrats were the party of police beating, using attack dogs, clubs and fire hoses on civil right marchers.

In Arkansas, Democrat Gov. Faubus defied the Supreme Court order to integrate public school and called out the National Guard to block black children from going to white schools.

Arkansas Sen. Fulbright filibustered the civil rights bill.

Democrat Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of Congress at the time of his death, was a member of the KKK. He was a Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops in his local KKK group.

President Franklin Roosevelt appointed a KKK member to the Supreme Court.

Republican President Lincoln freed the slaves and ended the Civil War, saving the Union.

Republican President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to escort black children to integrated public schools.

Republican President Nixon ended the Vietnam war. He also opened China to the rest of the world. Nixon started the Environmental Protection Agency, which cleaned up California’s brown air and the sewage-filled rivers, lakes and acid rain in the Rust Belt area. He started the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon initiated the first federal affirmative action program.

I can only defend President Trump’s bullying, arrogant exaggerations and lying by reminding everyone that he used to be a Democrat and may just be having trouble overcoming his old Democrat ways. LARRY FAULKENBURY Rogers