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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Much contributed to it, but short answer is since passage of the Civil Rights Act. Most former Southern Dems became
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The Calhoun/McConnell comparison is particularly justified given how closely modern
@GOP values align with values of nullification supporters/Confederacy - Show replies
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