This is the vibe I get from modern crackpot Democrats:
Above, John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850)
Below, Edmund Ruffin (January 5, 1794 – June 18, 1865)
Secessionists, virulently pro-slavery, hatred for northerners. In 1865, Ruffin committed suicide rather than submit to “Yankee rule.”
Democrats.
It is well to remember which American political party supported slavery and started the civil war. That is not the point of this piece, however. It is the stridency, the rejection of all but their own beliefs to the point of armed conflict. That is what these two gentlemen embody. Crazy stridency. This country is built on compromise and common interests. Move away from those foundations and armed conflict is possible. These two gentlemen also represent the historically wrong assumption that the other side is weak. Weakened through democratic principles and processes that must be followed. In the same way the Southern Confederacy was defeated in 1865, so too will Democratic calls for violence and tolerance for violence in this modern age be defeated. Democrats should remember the state of the Southern Confederacy at the end of the civil war – totally ravaged and beaten – and the great cost in blood and treasure that the war demanded. I urge party leaders to turn back from crazy stridency.
Two and a half minute supercut of Democrats calling for violence: