Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

You really think he’d support the party that has so fully embraced white supremacy? The party that supports various kinds of segregationist policies, such as extreme gerrymandering, and voter suppression? Both parties have recently supported the new jim crow in terms of hardline crime bills, but the democratic party is starting to move away from that, the GOP is not. On top of that, the current Trumpian GOP is just fine with brown children in cages, so I doubt that Douglass would support that at all.

What makes you think that? Libertarians (as a political party today, so big L) tend to be willing to embrace segregation as fine, as long as it’s not enforced by the state.

In what way? What from this speech leads you believe he’d embrace supply side economic theory?

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