Posted on 01/16/2017 2:32:49 PM PST by heterosupremacist
The latest media-manufactured controversy surrounding President-Elect Trump involves Congressman John Lewis, who wont be attending the inauguration because he believes that Mr. Trump will be an illegitimate president. (He reportedly believed the same about George W. Bush.)
American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson has written a very good piece about how the congressman shouldnt be considered immune from criticism simply because of his background as a civil rights leader.
The American left created a claque around [Congressman Lewis], requiring any serious discussion of the man to include a disclaimer as to his heroic status and infallibility .
This made him the perfect voice to go where no elected representative should go following the operation of the constitutional machinery for picking a president.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
MLK voted Republican for most of his life until the Kennedy’s blackmailed him into voting Dummycrat.
Fundamentally he wasn’t a party man, he believed in entrepreneurship, dismissed PC culture and wanted civil rights protest to be expressed peacefully and demonically. The BLM fools would have disgusted him.
If he were alive today he would be on the Trump train
“... expressed peacefully and demonically.”
Can a person be peacefully demonic? :)
Was MLK a Republican?
<img src=”https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ronald_Reagan_Martin_Luther_King_Day_signing.gif".
R.R. & Coretta Scott King
I never knew that the Kennedys blackmailed him into voting democrat. Doesn’t surprise me though.
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