Comment by paimapi

I won't say there aren't myriads of issues with establishment we-must-appeal-to-the-moderates DNC consultation priesthood but historically and in recent times one party has generally been better about civil rights than the other:

https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/raci...

If anything, you can thank most of the repeal of things like reproductive rights, the Voting Rights Act, etc and enshrinement of corporate personhood, gerrymandering, etc to the explicitly conservative project of The Federalist Society who now have the ruling majority in the Supreme Court.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/27/federalis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_leanings_of_United...