GOP Dragged For Misleading Tweet Honoring Lincoln As 'The First Republican President'

\u201cThe first Republican President\u201d

— GOP (@GOP) 1670254865

\u201c@GOP A progressive liberal who believed that the federal government should override "state's rights" when it came to human rights.\u201d

— GOP (@GOP) 1670254865

\u201c@GOP Abraham Lincoln has nothing in common with today\u2019s Republican party. Nothing.\n\nHe was for strong federal government and, by the end, emancipation and freedom of the slaves.\n\nIt would be more accurate if you put a picture of John Wilkes Booth up there representing you guys. #ncpol\u201d

— GOP (@GOP) 1670254865

\u201cWhen a political party is so desperate for a rebrand, they reach back to 1860, hoping everyone will forget that by the 1960s, they had become the anti-Civil Rights, pro-Jim Crow party and never looked back. You really think Lincoln would have had Confederate flags at his rallies?\u201d

— Lisa Senecal (@Lisa Senecal) 1670336162

\u201cMartin Van Buren lived long enough to see the party he built become a monster single-minded in its hunger for treason and inhumanity; and he endorsed the Republican candidate in 1860\nThere is no doubt that if Lincoln were alive today he would no longer be a Republican\u201d

— Yehuda But For The Oilam (@Yehuda But For The Oilam) 1670375316

\u201cYour voters fly the flag of the traitors who assassinated him.\n\nHe's not yours anymore.\u201d

— Patrick S. Tomlinson (@Patrick S. Tomlinson) 1670297168

\u201cLincoln would be embarrassed to call himself a Republican today.\u201d

— Joey Palimeno (@Joey Palimeno) 1670315545

\u201cHow truly shameful this is. \n\nGoing from the party that abolished slavery and protected democracy at all costs to racism, hatred, and working against core American Values. \n\nLincoln would never stand with your principles.\u201d

— PoliticsVerse \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@PoliticsVerse \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1670359359

\u201cY'all would call him a socialist now\u201d

— AntifaSlutriarch (@AntifaSlutriarch) 1670365881

\u201cLincoln was a self-described liberal, who believed in the republican duty to serve the people, to re-unite the American nation and to act in the common good.\n\nThe modern Republican Party is a nest of fascistic scandals which couldn\u2019t be further removed from the ideals of Lincoln!\u201d

— Paul Hindley \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b (@Paul Hindley \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b) 1670377568

\u201cLincoln fought a war against the likes of you...\n\nYou are seditionists and traitors to the United States of America and its citizens\n\nLincoln would be embarrassed and ashamed of you\u201d

— Rick Taylor (@Rick Taylor) 1670295093