History shows that such tactics can backfire. bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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These newcomers gravitated toward the political opposition: Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans Party bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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🗓️ 2018: Haiti and African nations are "shithole countries" -- Donald J. Trump bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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- Amended the Naturalization Act
- Forced new arrivals to wait 14 years to apply for citizenship
- Passed the Alien Acts, which allowed the president to imprison and deport foreigners bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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It was a strange target: Three-quarters of the nation’s publications in 1795 had a Federalist bias bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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That insult makes Sean Hannity look like a measured and respectable journalist. bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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- Publishers were arrested
- 30 people were prosecuted
- The number of opposition papers soared bloom.bg/2DCW6tf
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The disastrous outcome should give today’s Republicans food for thought bloom.bg/2DCW6tf