re: just a reminder......
The modern Democratic Party is light years away from what it was even back in the Kennedy administration. The Democrat-Republican party, founded by Jefferson, is as irrelevant to modern politics as the Whigs are.
Nomenclature is not as important as objective reality. Look at what liberal means now, compared to what it meant a hundred years ago. And liberal and conservative don't even mean the same things in some other countries as they do here.