Ben Tillman, arguably the worst racist in Senate history, took guns from black Americans, wrote the first federal campaign finance law, & was anti-business populist & vigorous backer of William Jennings Bryan's populist campaign in 1896, & a loyal Senate ally of Woodrow Wilson.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1155886305630400513 …
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Justice Thomas on Ben Tillman & how the Court's refusal to enforce the Privileges & Immunities Clause empowered him & his ilk: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/08-1521P.ZC1 …pic.twitter.com/6rmJbnktJW
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Talk about adding insult to injury.https://twitter.com/dustbury/status/1155920828594348032 …
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South Carolina was a total loss for Republicans at the presidential level between Grant & Eisenhower. In 1952, Ike almost won a state where no Republican had even drawn 10% of the vote in 56 years.pic.twitter.com/q4RJl1NDR6
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Another vivid example of the awfulness of Ben Tillman, the florid racist who dominated South Carolina's one-party Democratic politics for four decades:pic.twitter.com/r5CcnaouMz
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FDR always played to his Southern segregationist base. Appointing Black to the Court as a former Klansman was no mistake and no coincidence.
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Wilson didn't pander to racists. He was racist. Huge difference.
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