larryglickman.bsky.social
Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present.
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A true Statesman!
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Right.
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Right. But to take one example, Albert Parsons (b. 1848) fought for the Confederacy as a teenager, but after the war he supported the rights of the freedpeople, became a Republican and fought the Klan. Later, he became one of the Haymarket martyrs.
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This is such a recurring construction for them… if a man isn’t honored, he’s somehow being injured. They used this for Kavanaugh too.
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Congratulations, Jay. I've been a fan of your work for decades, and have learned a lot from your work. I expect to continue to do so going forward.
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If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all
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None of these, however, turned the United States totalitarian. Yet now the Trump administration is engaging in autocratic actions that really do threaten our constitutional safeguards and are fomenting the kind of constitutional crisis of the sort they imagined many times in the past./3