I challenge you to go read the Federalist Papers or the Constitution. When you do, it will become evident that the Democratic Party has rejected some, if not many, of the principles of our founding.
Yes, and as a reminder, there were both Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. The Federalists, like Hamilton, Jay, and Madison, were more on the side of the state than the Jeffersonian anti-federalists. So, even with the bigger-government wing of post-Revolutionary America, you had men who were downright anarchists compared to modern leftists. Today’s statist Democrats are overwrought by the demonic.