Posted on 12/28/2023 12:51:50 PM PST by McGruff
After the former South Carolina governor spent Thursday morning explaining why she didn’t mention slavery as a chief cause of the Civil War at an event the previous evening, she was called on the carpet in the afternoon by a 9-year-old boy who questioned her decision to serve in President Donald Trump’s administration.
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during her presidential campaign, Haley has argued that Trump would be ineffective in a second term due to the “chaos” he causes.
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“Chris Christie thinks you’re a flip-flopper on the Donald Trump issue, and honestly, I agree with him. You’re basically the new John Kerry,” the child told Haley in the ski town of North Conway as the audience laughed. “How can you change your opinion like that in just eight years, and will you pardon Donald Trump?”
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Another eyeopener would be Thom DeLorenzo's The Real Lincoln.
As interesting a read that Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America might be, I’m not sure why I would need to read that to simply find out why that group would care one way or another about the election of Lincoln. I asked you a question what that group would care about the election of Lincoln. I believe you said they didn’t like oppression in your first reply. I’m just not sure what Lincoln would have done or what they imagined he might have done to them.
I have read Shelby Foote’s 3 volume narrative on the civil war many times. Would you consider that to be the establishment narrative?
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