Most. Cursed. Podcast. Episode. Ever. Helen Andrews and Sohrab Ahmari on not-badness of Jan 6 and the badness of Reconstruction. 'Darn those carpetbaggers! And, oh, why can't we have conversations!' theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/j6-te…
You ask what sophistry they perpetrate? The Jan 6 stuff is too dull & obvious to rehearse. Just imagine the most obvious ways of dodging the question. That's it. The Reconstruction stuff is a strawman: pretend the issue is whether that era was a 'Golden Age'. Um, nope.
The only maybe interesting thing is Andrews insistence that those in charge of Reconstruction were the 'most leftwing people around at the time'. Reconstruction was a time when 'the most leftwing people had complete free rein'. That's a notably ... simple take.
Time was when GOP'ers were proud of their abolitionist heritage and didn't want to just foist all that off on the Democrats.
It's worth noting as well that the more-in-sorrow-than-anger 'why can't we have conversations?' is the sum total of the response to @EricLevitz' article. Sad, really, the depths to which leftists can sink, darn it. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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