People who are 100% team players can't understand people who call 'em as we see 'em.https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1166708251905470466 …
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1. Example of the perils of team-player thinking: Stephen Douglas backed "popular sovereignty" to decide if Kansas should be slave or free. The South cheered. The fraudulent Lecompton Constitution would have made it a slave state over the obvious objections of the state's voters.
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2. Douglas, recognizing that the force & fraud used to fabricate a pro-slavery result made a mockery of his entire theory of popular sovereignty, drew the line & opposed it. Southern Democrats burned him in effigy & walked out on the party when he won the nomination.
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3. Douglas was an amoral, calculating, race-baiting politician, but even he had his limits in flagrantly disregarding his own stated principles. His erstwhile Southern supporters didn't care about the principles, just the outcome. So they couldn't understand him.
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Well that’s nit picking....
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