Tag: Republican Party
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Memorial Service and Prayer Vigil for Charlie Kirk turn into Political Attacks and War Calls
The Memorial Service and Prayer Vigil held for Conservative Charlie Kirk at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. is a sad imagery of a national political party at Death’s doors. It is too late for this Scrooge. The speeches, e.g., from Kari Lake are moronically vitriolic and an attack against American college education and professors…
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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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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 But it begs to be superseded by an equally large-scale treatment that does not shy away from treating the founders as thinkers and statesmen, rather than as 18th-century ideologues.”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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Noam Chomsky on Populism and ‘Off The Spectrum’ Republican Party
Living outside of the Republican social media bubble? Take a look back at philosopher, historian and activist Noam Chomsky’s accurate warning of the success a crooked “charismatic figure,” appealing to particular sectors of society would have, while promising to cure society’s ills. Chomsky’s analysis of the Republican Party, before Mr. Trump even decided to run for…
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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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The Origins of the Religious Right with Samantha Bee
The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS The Religious Right | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS II “I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another” (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Elbridge Gerry, Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1799)
The American Minervan 