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HistorySmith
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Teaching US History, Gov/Econ, & Phil. Believing strongly in the 1st and 14th Amendments; and that the 19th took too damn long. #EndTheFilibuster
Aug 30, 2021 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
Tonight is the #HATM Wicked party... and since Wicked is an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, I'm going unload my version of the Oz allegory on you all.

Strap on your 🧹 this is going to be a long thread... [General caveat: I am a generalist and defer to actual experts on populism, the 1890s, and Frank Baum.]

1st - there is no historical record that Frank Baum intended the original Wizard of Oz stories (1st published in 1900) as an allegory for contemporary political events
#HATM