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Reminder: Progressives do not get to decide what’s right and wrong, and other lessons from Jackson’s handling of the first nullification crisis

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Andrew Jackson

America has already had this argument and it has already been soundly rejected, legally and at the bloody point of a gun during the Civil War.  In fact, three decades before the war itself, President Andrew Jackson confronted this very same thinking during the first nullification crisis. To hear Democrats and their progressive allies tell… Continue reading Reminder: Progressives do not get to decide what’s right and wrong, and other lessons from Jackson’s handling of the first nullification crisis

Violence is the Democrat strategy and their only hope for leverage

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Violence is the Democrat Strategy

Last summer, Democrats called for blood and began training “warriors” to resist ICE.  Last week, there was yet another tragic instance of actual blood, blood that was immediately seized upon as leverage to enact their preferred policy of ending deportations.  In our system of government, the minority party generally seeks leverage to influence events.  Lacking… Continue reading Violence is the Democrat strategy and their only hope for leverage