I know it is the baseball crank, but this is a great example of deceptive argumentation through eliding the details and it is worth unpacking.pic.twitter.com/milYID5JIu
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It is abusing terms to call pre-1863 additions “ideological court-packing” and there is no relationship between those expansions and the tensions that produced war.
Was the Supreme Court friendly toward the interests of slaveholders? Yes! But so was virtually every president and nearly half of Congress between 1801 and 1860. You have to twist American history into knots to tie the events of 1850 to 1860 to *court-packing*.
But if you don’t know any of this, the crank’s argument looks plausible! Which makes it a good example of misleading through eliding key details.
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