Your knowledge of the history of both current parties is biased to say the least. President Lincoln was a prigressive/liberal. Here's a yardstick for you. The South has been conservative since America was founded. So which ever political party the South belongs to is the conservative party. Andrew Jackson was a populist, just like Trump. FDR was was the most liberal President America has ever had. And on a lot of his agenda he had to court the liberal Republicans of the Midwest because the conservative southern Democrats were against a lot of his agenda. So political party names are more complex then your take on them. Try actually studying history before you pontificate on them.