Friday, April 09, 2021

What A Drag It Is Growing Old

I’m going to assume Steve Vladeck is too young to remember “literacy tests.” I mean, his argument is perfectly sound, but that was the reason for them: some people weren’t smart enough to vote. If those people just happened to be non-white, well, that was just Nature, wasn’t it?

Pretty easy to see how eugenics took hold in America first, and taught the Nazis how to make it government policy. And yes, this is the new argument on the right:
I am openly comparing such arguments to Nazism. Fuck Godwin, the shoe fits. Make them wear it. I mean, am I the only person old enough to remember this? Has Gingrich disappeared that far down the memory hole along with literacy tests and Jim Crow?  Those who write history get to exonerate themselves. Or at least try to. I don’t care what John Boehner says about Trump or who is to blame for what. He bought the ticket, he took the ride. I remember that, too. The ride is over now. Nobody wants to be associated with it. Nobody was a Nazi in Germany in 1946, either.

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  1. I'm old enough to remember when the young William F. Buckley was writing pieces in support of Jim Crow because if Black People voted they would vote for people who were good for Black People and they weren't the people who would be good for white racists. So the Nazional Review is going back to its roots.

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  2. From reading that NYT review of Boehner’s book, I was reminded Boehner came to Congress as a Gingrich acolyte. So he can’t escape responsibility for what he and Gingrich wrought.

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