“That’s the most effective argument that any Democratic candidate has against a Republican in this cycle,” said Dan Schnur, a former Republican media strategist for the late GOP U.S. Senator, John McCain and currently a professor at the University of Southern California (USC). . ..…

But not since the Civil War—which was essentially a conflict between the Southern Democrats and the Northern Republicans (if you don’t believe me, read Grant’s Memoirs)—have the two main parties edged this close to direct action against each other. . . ..…

At the time, the Democratic and Republican parties looked and acted very differently than they do today. Southern Democrats were actually the more conservative party. According to [Professor Michael Klarman, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, Democrats swept the 1874..…

An equal number backed building a wall on the southern border. . Across the 156 Republican Twitter accounts, Reuters identified only 37 tweets between 2016 and 2018 unambiguously critical of Trump’s immigration policies - almost all criticizing the separation of families at the border. ..…