1. You could spend all day on the slanted & misleading history in this @jbouie column why Mitch McConnell is...the new John C. Calhoun? To start with, search the column for mention of Harry Reid, Robert Byrd, or Lyndon Johnson. You won't find them.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/republicans-racism-african-americans.html …
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2. Bouie also begins & ends his history of gerrymandering with Republicans in the past decade, ignoring the vast history of Democrat gerrymanders. In 2009, Democrats had 15 more House seats than their share of the popular vote - without which Obamacare doesn't pass.
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3. Bouie's history of Walker-era Wisconsin power struggles ignores the unprecedented Democrat efforts to recall Walker, have the legislative minority flee the state, surround the capitol with angry mobs, & sic investigators on conservative donors.
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4. This is aside from the oddity of including, in a series on black Americans, a jeremiad against any political structure that defends the rights of the minority. I wonder if America has ever had minorities oppressed by the majority.
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@johnddavidson also notes that Calhounist views of the American Founding have more in common with today's progressivism & the 1619 Project than they do with modern conservatism https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/ghost-john-c-calhoun-haunts-todays-american-left/ … &https://thefederalist.com/2017/08/03/confederacy-still-lingers-within-progressivism-birthed/ …4 replies 19 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @baseballcrank @jbouie
Thanks, Dan. I have more on that today
@FDRLST - https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/20/ghost-john-c-calhoun-haunts-todays-american-left/ …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
That's one of the pieces I linked!
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