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Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

This letter was raising money for the Media Research Center run by Brent Bozell. He was the son of Bill Buckley's debate partner from Yale who ghostwrote Barry Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative. His son, meanwhile, was one of the Jan 6 rioters. https://t.co/hxDfq2cQmy

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

Left—what is outlawed Right—a paragraph from Democracy in America by specifically recommended author, Alexis De Tocqueville. https://t.co/wiYEouSmfz

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

“Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.” --Quoted in Reaganland, by Rick Perlstein

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

I read Matthew Dallek's excellent new book "Birchers" this weekend and, in proper academic form, I have a question that's actually more of a comment. https://t.co/oFSbq6yO1l

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

Reading "Insurgency" by Jeremy Peters (which is really good so far) and it sent me searching for this great moment of Palin punditry when she said the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol was terrible, but was perhaps the work of Antifa and definitely the fault of "the media." https://t.co/9Pn3nByzTo

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

In 1965 a Gallup poll found that 6% of Americans had a favorable view of the KKK. In 1979 that same poll found that 11% of Americans had a favorable view of the KKK. Source: Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home.

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

@RickySKron Yes. Loosely modeled on Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" plan.

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"Between 1790 and 1796...nearly five-sixths of federal operating expenditures were devoted to fighting Indians [to make land available for white settlers in what would become Mandel’s state of Ohio]" --Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, p. 268. https://t.co/tLjVp1nkvE

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

Left—what is outlawed Right—a paragraph from Democracy in America by specifically recommended author, Alexis De Tocqueville. https://t.co/wiYEouSmfz

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at the other places

““Very frankly,” Ronald Reagan said of Roots, “I thought the bias of all the good people being one color and all the bad people being another was rather destructive.”” — Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein https://t.co/jbr7IYvnUC