We all know that Edward Bates was a member of the American Party, right? He was a nativist and was not a supporter of extending political and civil rights to Black persons in America. I think he was more a Republican out of convenience than passion— he’s not of the Radical Republican mold! - ThreadSky

anthonymkreis.bsky.social • 7 days ago

We all know that Edward Bates was a member of the American Party, right? He was a nativist and was not a supporter of extending political and civil rights to Black persons in America. I think he was more a Republican out of convenience than passion— he’s not of the Radical Republican mold!

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victork1862.bsky.social•6 days ago

Man rushing something out like this you can almost see this guy salivating at the invitations to various conservative and right wing functions he's going to get. The grift is on!

anthonymkreis.bsky.social•7 days ago

Don’t these folks know anything about source criticism or do they just not care about the complexities of political history during this period? I am genuinely appalled at what’s happening.

scikeefe.bsky.social•7 days ago

Twisting history to create a new past.

anthonymkreis.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thinking I need to throw this point in our project, @evanbernick.bsky.social @paulgowder.bsky.social.

evanbernick.bsky.social•7 days ago

I worry that saying literally anything about this gives it too much credit but see if it writes

anthonymkreis.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think it’s not relevant to Kurt but still to Ilan and Randy who rely on Bates without any source criticism.

paulgowder.bsky.social•7 days ago

Probably not worth mentioning lash in particular just because the "draft" on there isn't even complete and doesn't even directly engage the issue.

Though I have been wondering how long it would take till someone broke out "divided" loyalty---wonder whether it's worth adding something abt

paulgowder.bsky.social•7 days ago

dual citizenship and maybe even antisemitism seeing as so many both legal and rhetorical attacks on dual loyalty have been targeted against Jews

evanbernick.bsky.social•7 days ago

Agreed, yes.

profhalloran.bsky.social•7 days ago

Dunno, man, would your average American law professor have read anything about quellenkritik?

joshkvt.bsky.social•7 days ago

They don't care about simplicities, let alone complexities.

evanbernick.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is wild

ajrichar.bsky.social•7 days ago

Trump II is clarifying @jdmortenson.bsky.social

anthonymkreis.bsky.social•7 days ago

They know he was basically a crank with little actual responsibility right? I’m just… what?

jerryedwards.bsky.social•6 days ago

How dare you, sir! Edward Bates is the most important historical figure I just learned about recently. 🙃

rlheppner.bsky.social•6 days ago

I mean, unfortunately no, we don’t all know that. 99.9% of us have never heard of Edward Bates before (or possibly think he’s that guy in Psycho).

danfarbman.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is cousin to this half written thing I’ve been laboring over basically arguing a) that the “framers” that we credit with the 14th amendment were mostly moderates not radicals and b) that we should care about the foment before the compromise than the crystallization of the text.

anthonymkreis.bsky.social•6 days ago

I think that’s right on the money. It’s a failure to appreciate the politics of the period that gets people hyper-focused on doctrine or legal text alone in trouble sometimes.

danfarbman.bsky.social•6 days ago

*care more

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