In the middle of last week, the Democratic governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was heard on a radio show supporting a controversial new late-term abortion bill, and by week's end, he was admitting to appearing in a 1980s-era photograph wearing either blackface or the robes of the Ku Klux Klan.  Democrats went from cheering to condemning him in the span of a few days. How ironic that the governor is condemned by Democrats for associating himself with their own past. From the 19th and up to the mid-20th centuries, Democrats defended slavery and gave us Jim Crow and segregation; many joined the KKK to terrorize blacks and keep them from the voting booths to prevent them from voting Republican.  The slogan for the 1868 Democratic National Convention was "This is a White Man's Country, Let White Men Rule."  Republican presidents from Ulysses S. Grant to Dwight D. Eisenhower fought the racist policies of the Democratic Party and Democratic...(Read Full Post)