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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2019

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      Jefferson contributed a lot to America. As with Andrew Jackson, you can recognize that without defending the many awful things in his life, his record & his thinking. https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1194266515736088581 …

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2019

      Even Jefferson's presidency has that dual character. His first term was tremendous, capped by the Louisiana Purchase. His second term was horrible, the low point being the insane 1807 embargo.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2019

      On slavery, Jefferson was a slaveowner, had a dubiously-consensual affair with his slave by whom he fathered children, & balked at abolition. He also banned the slave trade & wrote the first federal slavery ban, in the Northwest Ordinance. With Jefferson, there's always 2 sides.

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        2. Paul Courchane‏ @pjcourchane 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @MrLincolnsArmy @baseballcrank

          If he knew how immoral slavery was that makes him worse, not better.

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        2. Dr. Kameleon‏ @kameleon_o 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Yeah I’m pretty positive most relationships with people you owned were non-consensual. Hard to have any other type of relationship with what was considered property. Doesn’t make it right but Jefferson also wasn’t unique in that respect.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @kameleon_o

          Well, I say dubiously because of that inherent problem. That said, we don't actually know what she wanted.

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        1. Neil Hansen‏ @njh2005 12 Nov 2019
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          Often more than 2 sides.

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        2. Jarrett Stepman‏Verified account @JarrettStepman 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          And America itself had two sides, really many sides. But despite the realities of what America was when it separated from the British Empire, it was ultimately conceived in liberty in plain and undeniable language. For that, "all honor to Jefferson."

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2019
          Replying to @JarrettStepman

          Yeah, I don't want Jefferson "cancelled." I prefer to remind people that you cannot take him whole without swallowing a lot of awful things. His hypocrisy, his schemes & vendettas, his errors - all the stuff that was bad by the lights of his own day - is part of the story.

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        1. Tom Kirkendall‏ @bigtkirk 12 Nov 2019
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          IIRC, Jefferson's grandson Jeff Randolph drafted and proposed legislation in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832 for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Virginia. But the political fallout from the Nat Turner slave rebellion in 1831 undermined that initiative.

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        1. Dirk MacGirk‏ @dirkmacgirk 12 Nov 2019
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          Damn you, Dan. You know that’s one side too many. Cancelled!

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