Historian. Writer. Teacher. Avid Reader. Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Oct 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I have something interesting to share about @McCormickProf, one of the intellectual darlings of the Right
Few weeks ago, he published an op-ed in the @nytimes. Interesting, some good points. But, oh boy, did that essay sound familiar to something he published last year in @NRO
Turns out there are indeed similarities.
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Oct 28, 2018 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Thread on black voters and GOP: The GOP narrative about black voters is that we’re stuck on the DNC “plantation,” but black voters are actually rational actors who vote in their best interests. I know this because I am one of them.
2/ Black people voted in large numbers for the Republican Party until 1964. In fact, between 1948-1964 the black vote mattered a lot to both parties, as Henry Lee Moon predicted in 1948 with Balance of Power
