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Historian Sean Wilentz reviews Tim Alberta’s “American Carnage.” I concur that the book’s constrained time scale obscures the deeper roots of Trumpism. The rot set in long before McCain picked Palin for VP. nybooks.com/articles/2019/…
I got almost 2/3 of the way through Alberta's book this summer before I had to switch out of summer mode. Here are some of my takeaways from what I think is ultimately a very important and insightful account of the last decade of GOP politics
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John C Calhoun in 1849, sounding a heckuva lot like Tucker Carlson speaking about immigration, or Republicans talking about the relationship between the Democratic Party and voters of color.
Full text of Calhoun's "Southern Address." history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/c…
This is also one place where we see Southerners making the argument, in 1849, that chattel slavery was the "cornerstone" of the American Constitutional order. Not a sidelight, but the absolute centerpiece of it.
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Looks like the GOP is adopting Ann Coulter's line on Watergate...which is that Nixon did nothing wrong and Watergate was just a hit job by the liberal media ganging up with power-hungry "radical Democrats." These are her words from 2013.
And conservatives call professional historians "revisionists." Takes one to know one, I guess.
If you feel like throwing up in your mouth a little, check out this clip of Coulter at the Nixon Library in *2013* mouthing the contemporary Tucker/Ingraham line about the 1965 immigration bill causing "demographic replacement" by criminal parasites.
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Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
Seriously though, that reporting (if accurate) + these tweets and actions by Trump = Clear evidence of Watergate-level cover up.
TFW you’re a rich businessman who donates a few million bucks to a notoriously corrupt POTUS in order to score an ambassadorship, only to land on the pages of the WSJ for helping your man do crimes.
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