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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1) The Republican Party has its own constituencies it favors: fossil fuel companies, agri-business, evangelical churches—there is no “no state help” party. 2) Tillman’s successors are not in the Democratic Party, as we both know. And Sharpton, whatever his sins, is not Tillman.
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To add, if you favor strong IP rights you favor state help. If you favor corporate personhood you favor state help. If you oppose pigovian taxes you favor state help for polluters. GOP favors massive state help for their constituencies.
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