Today’s Republican Party: The Party of Working People

Which Party Speaks for You? The Truth May Surprise you!

The Lincoln Legacy:

Supporting Free Labor

On February 28, 1854, representatives of the “basket of deplorables” of that era—prohibitionists, free-soilers, suffragists, Whigs, and abolitionists—met in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, created a new political party, dedicated to halting the spread of slavery, and ultimately ending it: the “Republican Party.”

Freedom and Prosperity

In 1860, the Republican Party chose Abraham Lincoln as its candidate for president: A man who had begun life as a laborer, working with a maul and an axe by day, while studying Euclid and the law by night.

The choice before the nation was stark:

The Democratic Party defended slavery: saying that it is licit, even admirable, to hold human beings in bondage and steal their labor.

Republican Party, by contrast, held that all workers are free by right. In Lincoln’s words, a black woman “in her natural right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands … is my equal and the equal of all others.”

The Republican Party also promoted prosperity: by internal improvements, including a transcontinental railroad; by a Homestead Act, to give federal land free to farmers; and by promoting industry via protective tariffs.

The Enduring Vision

Lincoln’s vision is the core of today’s Republican Party:

Freedom for labor. Prosperity for the nation.

Today’s Republican Party:

Working For Working People

Today’s Republican Party is now the party that works for working people.

A Growing Economy

The gross domestic product is now growing at a very healthy rate of 3.3%, according to the latest numbers from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Lower Inflation

Inflation has now shrunk to 2% a year, which is the level of inflation that the Federal Reserve regards as good for growing the economy. Containing inflation remains a major priority of the Republican Party.

More Jobs

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the workforce has grown by 1.3% over the last year, to 134.84 million. More significantly, the percentage of jobs held by Americans, versus those held by immigrants, has increased significantly.

Lower Taxes

The recent omnibus bill (the so-called “Big Beautiful” bill) secured the tax cuts made during President Trump’s first administration. Without this, the nation would have faced a massive tax increase.

Controlled Immigration

The Trump administration has reduced illegal immigration effectively to zero—ending what was, in effect, a black market in labor.

This is not to slam the door on immigration—far from it! But it does mean that immigrants must enter our country by knocking on that door, rather than by climbing in through a window.

Your Choice:

The Party of They/Them, or The Party of You

The Republican Party’s program of economic growth, lower inflation, reasonable taxes, and controlled immigration, are enhancing the stability, security, and prosperity that working people need.

Opportunity & Fairness

The Republican Party is working to enhance opportunity and fairness, by working to root out so-called “DEI”—the ideology that sees a person not as an individual, but as an instance of the social construct called “race.” “DEI” is nothing more than institutionalized racism: and today’s Republican Party, like the Republican Party of old, is fighting it.

Opportunity should be available to everyone. Fairness is the right of everyone. The Republican Party is the party that is working to make these a reality for every American.

Back To Our Roots

Recent years have seen the two major parties returning to their roots.

The Republican Party has returned to its roots as the party of Lincoln: the party of freedom for labor and prosperity for the nation. It’s the party of you.

The Democratic Party, unfortunately, has returned its roots, as the party of racial division; the party of wealthy owners and subjugated labor; the party of states’ rights (as shown by resistance to federal immigration laws) versus a unified nation. It is the party of they/them.

Which party speaks for you?