But in the modern day you see revisionist history insisting that no such realignment ever occurred, and that the R's are the same "Party of Lincoln" they always were. Enter news stories such as this one. If you aren't sure that a realignment took place, ask which movement in the present day regularly celebrates and defends and invokes that iconography of the confederate south, and tries to defend and preserve historical artifacts that celebrate the confederate south while removing those that criticize it.
If the history of the 20th century wasn't already clear, I think even just the last 5-10 years, and especially this year, 2025, give all kinds of new evidence demonstrating that the realignment really happened.
Coming out of the civil rights movement, it was the democrats who wanted to change the status quo and the Republicans who wanted to defend it.
In the present period of endless culture war and polticization of everything, it seems that the democrats are the ones on the side of the status quo and existing power structures. They want to shove everyone into identity groups, put those groups into hierarchies, they want to shame certain groups and grant new privileges to others.
A lot of people are exhausted by the culture war, tired of having every aspect of our lives coopted to remind us to feel bad about ourselves and to hate each other. I don't think Trump is really offering a new path here yet, but he's recognizing what people say all the time in private and which the democrats refuse to accept.
This view seems to be starkly at odds with today's reality - ICE raids target "certain groups" - all out-groups, and this is not driven by Democrats.
It is also incoherent with "democrats are .. on the side of the status quo and existing power structures".
This seems more like projection than anything else.
That said, this article is about removing references to slavery in national parks, so I'm not sure where your point is going.
