The Party Switch Myth

Thursday 1/15/26 | Data & Dissonance

Republicans are Nazis. ICE is the Gestapo. Conservatives are the modern KKK.

If you spend any time online, you’ve heard it — repeated so often it’s treated as settled fact. But when the conversation turns to history — slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, segregation, the Ku Klux Klan, and opposition to civil rights — the response is always the same: “The parties switched.”

In tonight’s episode of Data & Dissonance, we slow the noise down and ask a dangerous question:
Did the parties actually switch — or did the story change while the power stayed put?

We break down:

• Where the “party switch” narrative comes from — and what it leaves out

• Why calling political opponents “Nazis” has become a shortcut instead of an argument

• How institutions avoid accountability by laundering history through slogans

• Why reckless language doesn’t prevent authoritarianism — it hides it

This isn’t a defense of a party.
It’s a demand for historical honesty.

Because if history can be erased with a sentence, accountability never exists at all.

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