Read this short thread, then read more about the election of 1876 and the end of Reconstruction. It's undertaught at schools how dramatically this set the stage for much of the internal strife of the next century. In some ways, we still haven't recovered, and i think the comparison is apt
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Jacob T. Levy
I keep coming back to 1876 as the analogy: not the end of competitive elections or the establishment of a nationwide one-party state, but a catastrophic blow to constitutional government from which it took 90 years to sort of recover.
But the North was able to avert its eyes from the consequences, 1
But the North was able to avert its eyes from the consequences, 1
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