"They’re not really interested in this sentimentalism over the Confederacy. They wd much rather play the strong card: America’s great because we destroyed slavery": great @rebeccaonion interview w @karpmjhttps://slate.com/human-interest/2021/06/gop-lost-cause-emancipation-history.html …
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Makes me think about the (much-puzzled-over) passage in the 1776 Report arguing that identity politics is the child of Calhoun, and claiming Lincoln's understanding of the Founding.
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This is all from Harry Jaffa (not surprising since 1776 report a product of Claremont Institute).
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Yup. And very in-line with what Karp is arguing more broadly about what Trump & his ideologues may be doing more intuitively (if that's the word)...
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Stephen Miller might be the main conduit here between ideologues and Trumpworld. He spent time in Claremont. Jaffa's 1960s-1990s wars with Kendall/Bradford/Francis prefigured all this.
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Did he? Have seen refs to Miller's parents support for CI, but not him spending time there
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Maybe I'm misremembering but I thought he had one of their fellowships (the Publius fellowship?)
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