THIS IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TEXT TO PRESERVE AND STUDY. The refrain that "there would have been no violence had liberals not provoked it" is central to America's reactionary minoritarian traditions literally going back centuries. https://twitter.com/RepKevinBrady/status/1348070306536153088
@RichardKreitner and I document some examples from, inter alia, the state-sponsored massacre of dozens of Blacks in New Orleans in 1866, and the violent Massive Resistance in the 1950s South. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/
A Brief History of Dangerous Others

Wielding the outside agitator trope has always, at bottom, been a way of putting dissidents in their place. The allegation is not even necessarily meant to be believed. It is simply a cover story,...

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/07/27/a-brief-history-of-dangerous-others/
I'll be publishing an essay on this soon, but, again, if I had to to summarize how the Republican Party has evolved over the last 60 years in a sentence, I would quote the 1964 Texas Goldwater delegate who said "we pushed the Mason-Dixon like clear up to Canada."
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