Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, led the national movement against slavery, and the Republicans were friends of Martin Luther King and his movement such that he was a Republican too, so what of today? The Democrats have held strong to maintainng the name of the Russell Senate Office Building for many decades, named after a racist senator who opposed the Civil Rights movement, only now the change requested conveniently to remove the racist Russell from public consciousness while elevating who had been one of Trump’s biggest enemies, John McCain, two birds with one stone.
