Julie Stanton 🙋🏼‍♀️☀️💙🔥🌊 Profile picture
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Jul 8, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read
Some thoughts about Trump’s invocation of “Manifest Destiny”.

It was the 19th century belief that settlers were destined to expand across North America and was used to justify genocide against indigenous Americans.

Lebensraum | The Holocaust Encyclopedia encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art… American “Manifest Destiny” inspired Hitler’s “Lebensraum” which was used to justify conquest and forced depopulation of the countries surrounding Germany and beyond. Both imply that a “superior people” has a destiny and even divine duty to take land from an “inferior” one.
Oct 18, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
REMARKABLE comments from Hillary Clinton!

Hillary Clinton suggests Putin has kompromat on Trump, Russia will back Tulsi Gabbard third-party bid - The Washington Post

#OneVoice1 washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…