1. This whole argument illustrates why dunking on the hapless @DineshDSouza - who never says anything, even when he's generally in the right, without including an easily-checked falsehood - loses the forest for the trees.
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3. Demonstrating D'Souza's lack of factual credibility is a worthwhile project, but at a certain point, returning endlessly to that well loses any relevance to the world of facts & ideas debated by serious people.pic.twitter.com/8405FqQKQk
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Not entirely true. The Whigs collapsed & were replaced by a literally nameless opposition coalition. The Republican Party was a new organization out of the ashes.
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No serious person thinks that party alignments in 1860 are in any way relevant to today tho
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But what's the forest when D'Souza is trying to project the political parties of 1860 onto the political parties of today?
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