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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Tillman was just a demagogue as much as he was a racist. He talked herrenvolk democracy, he didn’t walk it. Bryan snd Wilson has substantive programs. But they all had the choice of multi-racial democratic politics. Nothing inevitable about any of this this.
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Policies of handing out money & privileges to people the government favors attracts demagogues, & always will. Today's Democratic party, like yesterday's, has no restraints against elevating people with Tillman's worldview, so long as it favors D constituencies. Like Sharpton.
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