"The Democratic Party should have been abolished at the close of the Civil War," - American Thinker It was the party of slavery, as it had been from its inception.  It’s legislation and policies were catalysts in the ruptures leading to civil war.  Northern Democrats -- many known as “Peace Democrats” or more accurately, “Copperheads” -- served as a fifth column.  They aided and abetted their rebellious southern fellows.  Imagine at the end of World War II had the Allies permitted the National Socialist German Workers' Party to continue?  Regarding moral considerations, where does slavery stack up against the persecution and extermination of the Jews (among others)?  Both are, indeed, evils.  The Germans exploited slave labor as well.  Extermination, though, surpasses slavery as an evil, in that when you take a human being’s life, you take-away any chance of liberty, and the exercise of natural rights that undergird freedom.  Yet, you can argue that any human being who lives, from birth to death, in bondage, suffers a form of death.  Millions of black slaves suffered a form of death.  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/democrats_riots_racism_rot_and_rebellion.html And I add, the party of treason, insurrection and degeneracy. Wipe out the whole lot.