Thread by @SethCotlar

Not only is this a fake quote from Henry, the source is the April 1956 edition of the virulently antisemitic & white nationalist magazine "The Virginian." It was reprinted in The American Mercury in 1956, the year that antisemitic rag hired George Lincoln Rockwell.

Here's the original source from The Virginian of April 1956. Note the piece proceeding the one on Henry (bottom right) which complains about how liberals have appropriated Jefferson as their own, when really he believed in white supremacy like they did.

To give a flavor of the April 1956 edition of The Virginian, here's a story that appeared a few pages before the Patrick Henry piece.

That line about how America welcomes other religions BECAUSE it's supposedly a Christian nation takes on new meaning when put in the context of this sales pitch The Virginian made to prospective readers in 1955.

This kind of anti-Black conspiratorial thinking that blamed Jews/Communists for the supposed evils of integration in the 1950s was ubiquitous on the US right. Here's a 1959 example from the papers of Walter Huss, who became the chair of the Oregon GOP in 1978.

Huss had a framed copy of this picture of himself and Dan Quayle (taken in 1990) up on his wall in his house. At roughly the same time, a young Missourian named Josh Hawley was also quite enamored of Quayle himself.

In the April 1957 American Mercury, 6 months after they reprinted that Patrick Henry piece Hawley cited, they published this article by George Lincoln Rockwell bemoaning the US's insufficiently manly military. This is the first and last page.

In 1964 Walter Huss campaigned hard for Republican Barry Goldwater for President. At that time Huss also published a newspaper. A significant portion of the content of that paper was taken from the pages of The American Mercury.

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Another place where Hawley's fake Patrick Henry quote showed up was in the 1992 newsletter of the German American National Political Action Committee. This was a neo-Nazi organization run by Hans Schmidt.

In 1982, former Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew, wrote a letter to neo-Nazi Hans Schmidt in which he complained about his unfair treatment at the hands of "organized Jewry" who play up the "so-called Holocaust."

Hanna Rosin, in "God's Harvard," points out that Hawley's fake Patrick Henry quote used to be a favorite of David Barton's in the 1980s until he had to admit he couldn't confirm it. One wonders where exactly Barton found the quote, considering it's unsavory origins.

You'll be surprised to learn, I'm sure, that this fake Patrick Henry quote appears in the 2009 "Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers." Could have just called "The Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers" and saved some ink.

Anyway, just keep all of this context in mind the next time you hear Hawley complain about George Soros or "globalists" or "cosmopolitans" or "internationalists."

And I'd like to put a plug in for this thing called "google." If you type in a quote from a founding father you're thinking of tweeting out, in a matter of seconds you can quite easily discover if it's for real or not.

Weird how all of these founder-worshipping originalists keep circulating fake founder quotes that just coincidentally happen to square with their contemporary politics. Shocking. buzzfeednews.com/article/andrew…