Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

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FBI crackdown on left activists in 3, 2, 1…

Nah, just kidding. It never stopped.

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Framing and emphasis.

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b-boy bouiebaisse (jbouie)

yep! the main opposition to popular election of the president had little to do with fear of “mob rule” and everything with specific political problems, #1 being “too much of the South’s population is enslaved and white southerners could never muster enough votes to elect a POTUS” twitter.com/ositanwanevu/s…

Osita Nwanevu @OsitaNwanevu

Others have written about this, but it really is incredible that Madison says straight up at the Convention, 'No, the popular vote is very good in principle, actually; the problem is that the North would win all the time because they don't have slaves.' https://t.co/NyIy7ZxHGG https://t.co/HH6TEuUKlK

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