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The Voting Rights Act was called “An act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution.” Those who passed Civil Rights laws in the 1960s saw them not as “upending” the Constitution (as Andrew Sullivan has it) but as fulfilling it,as amended during the Reconstruction era
See Eric Foner’s recent book on the Reconstruction amendments.
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BTW, @KevinMKruse and @KevinLevin made these points in September before the Andrew Sullivan article or the Caldwell book appeared. They seem particularly relevant in response to Sullivan's framing, which presumably is also Caldwell's.
@KevinMKruse @KevinLevin And, of course, C. Vann Woodward spoke of the nascent Civil Rights movements as a "Second Reconstruction."
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@KevinMKruse @KevinLevin Here's the great historian, John Hope Franklin, in 1964 speaking of the "100-year Civil Rights struggle since the Civil War." No "upending," contra Sullivan, but finally fulfilling the Reconstruction Amendments.
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@KevinMKruse @KevinLevin Important to point out that opponents of the Civil Rights movement also made the connection (the "exact parallel," as Percy Greene, the editor of the Mississippi Advocate, pointed out in this piece) to Reconstruction.
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This is an original and powerful interpretation of some recent trends, but I find Douthat's political analysis here to be tendentious and misleading. 1/
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The "both sides" analysis here is, as opposed to the rest of the piece, thoroughly conventional and flattens huge political differences that matter. /2
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In his State of the Union, Donald Trump said, "We will never let socialism destroy American healthcare!" Way back in April of 1945, the great actor Orson Welles had a convincing response to what he called the "socialized medicine epithet."
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In the U.S., commentators rarely talk about the “far right,” but the worrying European developments described here certainly have their American parallels. But here rather than emerging from new parties, it has largely happened within an existing one. nytimes.com/2020/02/04/opi…
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It seems that the American commentators are generally willing to compare the two through the lens of “populism” or “nationalism,” but have been reluctant to speak of an American “far right.” To be sure, all of these terms have their limits. /3
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