Reply #9: Or what about the party of Woodrow Wilson, a racist of the highest order?

[IrateCitizen]

Upon viewing a private screening in the WH of F.W. Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation", a blatantly pro-KKK movie that portrayed blacks as deviants lying in wait to rape and defile white women, Wilson remarked, "It was history like capturing lightning in a bottle.... My only regret is that it is so true."

Also, Wilson reversed the policy that LINCOLN had put in place de-segregating the Federal Government -- after he had made a campaign promise to address the concerns of African Americans.

And since the OP brought up the suspension of habeus corpus, it's important to mention that Wilson made it a crime to criticize the Federal Government during WWI, and it was his attorney general, Mitchell Palmer, that initiated the "Red Scare" with Wilson's blessing.