1. You could spend all day on the slanted & misleading history in this @jbouie column why Mitch McConnell is...the new John C. Calhoun? To start with, search the column for mention of Harry Reid, Robert Byrd, or Lyndon Johnson. You won't find them.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/republicans-racism-african-americans.html …
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2. Bouie also begins & ends his history of gerrymandering with Republicans in the past decade, ignoring the vast history of Democrat gerrymanders. In 2009, Democrats had 15 more House seats than their share of the popular vote - without which Obamacare doesn't pass.
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3. Bouie's history of Walker-era Wisconsin power struggles ignores the unprecedented Democrat efforts to recall Walker, have the legislative minority flee the state, surround the capitol with angry mobs, & sic investigators on conservative donors.
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4. This is aside from the oddity of including, in a series on black Americans, a jeremiad against any political structure that defends the rights of the minority. I wonder if America has ever had minorities oppressed by the majority.
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@johnddavidson also notes that Calhounist views of the American Founding have more in common with today's progressivism & the 1619 Project than they do with modern conservatism https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/ghost-john-c-calhoun-haunts-todays-american-left/ … &https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/confederacy-still-lingers-within-progressivism-birthed/ …4 replies 19 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
6. Then there is Bouie's history of Reaganism, which consists entirely of a quote about the 1991 David Duke campaign that is so hilariously ahistorical regarding the environment of 1980 & 1984, it's hard to believe anyone who lived through that era wouldn't laugh at it.
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7. Bouie's view that Bill Buckley only rethought his view on civil rights "when key civil rights questions had been settled by law" also has the timeline of Buckley's evolution wrong, unless Bouie thinks these things had been settled by the mid-60shttps://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/13/william-f-buckley-civil-rights-215129 …
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8. I'm not sure how you write this paragraph without pulling a hamstring.pic.twitter.com/aecf8mOtis
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9. Also, in ascribing Calhounism as the source of anti-majoritarianism in American politics, Bouie ignores the role of "living constitution" judges & the administrative state, both of which derive from the anti-majoritarian theories of white supremacist Woodrow Wilson.
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Goldwater is always the target for historians who want to tie conservatives repubs to racism. He uses the Dixiecrats as the catalyst, yet ignores Goldwater and GOP support of Civil Rights throughout the ‘50s. Also, more GOP conservatives voted for CRA64 than against it.
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