A comprehensive and devastating take-down by @baseballcrank of another historically illiterate argument at the Times
Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaveshttps://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/yes-lincoln-and-the-union-freed-the-slaves/ …
The whole point of how we got to the American Revolution is that Americans could not channel politics into representation. Where electoral politics matters greatly is asking why elected governments did things with government power.
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No, the whole point of the revolution was that the colonials were mad because the crown expected them to pay for their own defense and, most importantly, banned English settlement beyond the crest of the Appalachians. How dare he!
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Someday - and today, plainly, will not be that day - I sincerely hope someone succeeds in teaching you that assertion is not argument, ad hominem is not evidence, self-regard is not expertise, & repetition does not improve a weak case.
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