No joke: this is the 1956 Republican Platform:

[applegrove]

My, how things have changed!

— #TuckFrump (@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T17:16:36.000Z

[UpInArms]

1. Wow

Who knew Dwight was a liberal?

[Cirsium]

2. Radical Left

That is way to the Left than the positions of far, far too many current Democratic party politicians and consultants.

[Inkey]

3. The twists and turns the GOP have made

Them the party they have become now. Quite screwed up.
They tried to placate too many niche groups to stay in power.
The whole looking out for posterity, has been tossed for short term
and short sighted gains.

[Iggo]

4. They let all the Southern racists in, and then the racists took over.

Civil Rights, and like that.

[appmanga]

8. In that era, the Republicans were the "coalition" party...

...which relied on Northeastern and West Coast liberals, huge numbers of black voters, and the very rich. The only cohort to remain are the very rich, who may have been oppose to, and offended by LBJ's passing of the Civil Rights bill, but they knew they'd be alright. Southern Democrats, the reliable backbone of the party since the end of the Civil War were welcomed with open arms into a party they would spend the next 16 years converting into a comfortable home for racists, fascists, and anti-government demagogues.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. That platform is further to the left than some so called "Centrists". Nt

[progressoid]

9. Yep.

nuff said.

[MustLoveBeagles]

6. Wow

That's a liberal platform.

[Renew Deal]

7. This was only as a way to peel of Democrats

After FDR and Truman

[Codifer]

10. And it stopped there.

Stopped by Richard Fucking Nixon and creep and dirty tricks and rat fucking and Watergate and the Southern Strategy.

You know.... win at any cost.