That history is ....inconvenient ....to the conservative movement, as opposed to just being, history.
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I dunno, Ted Cruz was pretty persuasive a few days ago... /s
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I would have said it was
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He may not have read it yet, and I do like to think of myself as the last of the centrist liberals rather than a conservative. But maybe I am a sort of conservative again. Who knows.
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Sadly, it's a rare conservative these days who is willing to say, directly, "Jim Crow existed and was bad." Too much of modern conservative election design rests on, at best, eliding out that part of US history.
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Is he really saying it is bad? Or os he just lamenting that it’s perceived badness hurts his political movement?
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Agreed.
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Yeah he seems to be one of the only online conservatives engaging with it on the merits, to his credit
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it’s fine to argue slavery doomed limited govt, but the real heavy lifting is to disentangle libertarianism from capitalism reductio ad absurdum from which slavery naturally arises
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Counterpoint: slavery necessarily doomed us with a pathological obsession for enforcing a limited government completely resistant to popular reforms for centuries. Conservatives need to take a long walk in the woods (but they will instead become “critics” of democracy)
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