Anyone saying “a ha! Sean Wilentz is a lib, checkmate” is either uninformed or trying to trick you. Wilentz is a clintonian liberal (Seinfeld voice: not that there’s anything wrong with that) but his opposition to 1619 is not at all in conflict with his ideological stance
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i think his kind of consensus-y neo-schlesingerism has become a bit underrated in recent years and may have a revival, but it's definitely where he comes from and it's highly contested (as i'm sure he would admit)
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I've been thinking a lot about this and I honestly prefer Schlesinger to Wilentz. When push came to shove -- during Vietnam & Watergate -- Schlesinger was able to rethink his priors (The Imperial Presidency is proof of that). Wilentz can't do that.
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