Gohmert of the Republican Party presents a resolution that would ban the Democratic Party

Rep. Louie GohmertLouis (Louie) Buller GohmertGaetz says Cheney should be removed or resign when Republican leader Conservatives clash with Cheney for his support of Fauci, Massie’s top challenger GOP-Trump fractures in masks open MORE (R-Texas) unveiled Thursday a House resolution urging lawmakers to ban political organizations or groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the United States, a list that he says includes the Party. Democrat.

“A large part of the history of the Democratic Party is full of racism and hatred. With people demanding that we get rid of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the disgusting aspects of our past, the time has come for Democrats to recognize their party’s disgusting and intolerant past and consider changing their party’s name to something that is not. It is so blatantly and offensively linked to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination and the Ku Klux Klan, ”Gohmert said in a statement.

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It comes after the House voted on Wednesday to remove statues of people who served in the Confederacy or defended slavery from the Capitol.

The vote followed weeks of protests across the country against racial inequality and police brutality sparked by the murder of George Floyd. The protests and rallies have been directed at statues of Confederate leaders, the explorer Christopher Columbus, former President Andrew Jackson, and others.

Gohmert said Thursday that the legislation “failed to address the most present historical stigma of the United States Capitol, that is the source that so fervently supported, condoned, and fought for slavery that remained intact, but without which, the evil of slavery could never have continued as it did to the extremes that needed to be addressed here in order for the United States House of Representatives to avoid the degradation of historical events and blatant hypocrisy for future generations. “

The Democratic Party supported the institution of slavery during the Civil War era, although modern Democratic and Republican parties bear little resemblance to their iterations of the 19th century.

Gohmert also cited examples of racist policies within the history of the Democratic Party, including supporting former President Woodrow Wilson’s racial discrimination.

He suggested that the party change its name on Thursday, saying that “that is the rule they are forcing everyone else to do, so the name change must occur.”

During a congressional hearing on reparations last year, Gohmert also tried to point out that Democrats were historically the party that supported slavery, when a protester interrupted by yelling “You’re lying!”