Tag: immigration
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Abraham Lincoln Letter to Joshua F. Speed lays into Anti-Immigrant Nativist Party ‘Know-Nothing’
Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that “all men are created equal. We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” ABRAHAM LINCOLN, 1855 ABRAHAM LINCOLN LETTER TO JOSHUA F. SPEED AUGUST 24, 1855 “I am not a Know-Nothing. That…
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Fox News and El Paso Gunman are on same Page: Fox Repeats Shooter’s Manifesto Verbatim
Fox News has echoed talking points from the El Paso shooter’s manifesto regarding a Hispanic “invasion” for some time. The attempt of Trump to relate the Dayton’s shooter’s left-wing sentiments to Elizabeth Warren is a cunning distraction and a deceitful comparison. “Will leaders sit back as invasion happens?” TUCKER CARLSON, COMING TO AMERICA SEGMENT Perhaps,…
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A Critical Look at Hayward’s Review of the Liberal Republicanism of Gordon Wood
Late to the party Wood’s body of work will remain preeminent for some time in the historiography of the American Founding. But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.” “Unlike today’s liberals who quote…
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Trump and Conservatives defend Shithole Remark on Haiti, Africa, and El Salvador
The American Right and GOP will suffer for defending it in the end. The Trump administration, political base, and Identitarian Nationalists are in agreement. The issue largely is with President Trump’s alleged comments, defended by his base, who did not stand beside Americans—Latinos, Haitians, and immigrants who found the comments highly ignorant, divisive, and deeply…
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