Was a time …

Democrats advertised their party as “The Party of Jefferson and Jackson.” After a while, though, that slavery thing again rose from the swamps, and Democrats realized that although their party was the party of slave owners, maybe it would be best to just pretend Jefferson and Jackson weren’t really Democrats after all.

Was a time, too, Republicans bragged on their party as “The Party of Lincoln.” But when Republicans became the party of small government, Lincoln, a big-government politician for his time, had to go back behind the curtain.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, as people have said for several centuries, and politics also makes for “Now you see it, now you don’t” history.