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Kevin M. Kruse Profile picture
@KevinMKruse
May 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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I just found my dad's notebook from an Introduction to American Government course he took at Kansas State in the summer of 1965, and it is phenomenal.
There's a lot going on here, but the John Birch Society's take on Earl Warren deserves special attention.
I'm wondering if this, in July 1965, was the first time he'd heard about this new "Medi Care"
I've been told this was some radically new argument and not something they were teaching at K-State in the 1960s.
This takes on some new resonance in light of recent events.

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Oct 10, 2023
Well, I think my time here is done.
This site has gotten steadily worse with every "improvement" Elon has made, but this weekend made it clear that it's no longer a place to get and discuss breaking news.
It's just a cesspool for the worst people on social media and it's getting worse every week.

I've been telling myself for months that the good here outweighs the bad, but I don't believe that anymore.
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Sep 23, 2023
There's no better way to announce that you've read literally nothing on the party realignment over civil rights than to ask about congressional delegations.

That's not how realignment happened, and anyone pushing this "rebuttal" is either an idiot or a liar.

But let's dig in!
Again, as I've discussed many times before, the power of sitting congressmen depended entirely on their seniority in the Democratic Party, which held dominant majorities in Congress. That's why they're the lagging indicator in this process.
So let's look at a state, but all the politics of a state, not just the senior southern Democrats determined to hang on to their perks in Congress.

How about Mississippi?
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Sep 13, 2023
@CheesedHammer @ericjorgenson8 @flakingbaking @quiltsbypagan @Katb4animals @RickLaManna1 @RepJasonCrow I'm a historian who's worked on this for 25 years, so I could point you to a lot of my published work, starting with my chapter in MYTH AMERICA:

hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-m…
@CheesedHammer @ericjorgenson8 @flakingbaking @quiltsbypagan @Katb4animals @RickLaManna1 @RepJasonCrow But I'm happy to provide some primary sources as well.

Here's some news coverage of Prentiss Walker, the segregationist Republican whose first appearance after winning the election was to speak before Americans for Preservation of the White Race: Image
@CheesedHammer @ericjorgenson8 @flakingbaking @quiltsbypagan @Katb4animals @RickLaManna1 @RepJasonCrow As I've noted here before, Prentiss Walker was an outspoken opponent of civil rights, voted against the Voting Rights Act, and insisted civil rights activists were worse than the Klan:

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Aug 29, 2023
This strikes me as a fair diagnosis of a problem, but a wholly impractical solution.
The problem of historical falsehoods that get repeated in the literature is certainly real.

We all have our own stories of learning this the hard way, I'd imagine.
For instance, I long accepted that Ike's 1952 campaign strategy was a "formula" they called K1C2, for "Korea, Corruption, and Communism"

Then I wrote an essay on it & tried to trace the claim to its source, only to find it was all based on one wild distortion that took off.
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Aug 10, 2023
The House GOP has been riling up its base by repeatedly insisting it has the goods to get Joe Biden.

This works fine in the short term, but repeatedly overpromising and underdelivering is only going to make the base mad at them, more than anyone else.
You can see this with today's tweets from the Oversight Committee.

It's framed as a huge hit on Biden but once you read it, it's clear the "Biden FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES" framing is a load-bearing beam.

It's a showy announcement meant to suggest much more than is actually there.
But the base doesn't get that -- they're riled up and they expect action.

Action that Republican politicians can't *actually* deliver because they (or at least their very patient legal counsel) understand there's really no there there.
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Jul 29, 2023
Any discussion of Florida's effort to replace the original AP standards for African American history with the state's own version should directly compare and contrast the two.

Here's the AP:

Here's Florida: https://t.co/Ygf0RWsNBYapcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-a…
fldoe.org/core/fileparse…
One thing is readily apparent from even a quick comparison between the two standards -- the claims that Florida's standards are "robust" quickly fall apart when you line them up next to the much more substantial program the AP has put together with specific sources and plans.
A lot of attention has been given to the slavery section -- which in Florida is strongly focused on discussing abolitionism while the AP standards are much more direct on the lived experiences for the enslaved -- but for me the 20th century material is more of an issue.
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