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It’s #presidentsday - so here’s a non-exhaustive thread about why every US President sucks (UP TIL JULY 2020)
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instagram.comRoosevelt showed little patience for the “statesmen of the Atlantic seaboard” who were congenitally “unable to fully appreciate the magnitude of the interests at stake in the west.” In his telling, not George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett—fighting Indians, hacking their way through the woods—were the true
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In America there is scarcely a hamlet which has not its own newspaper. It may readily be imagined that neither discipline nor unity of design can be communicated to so multifarious a host, and each one is consequently led to fight under his own standard.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Twenty Englishmen were elected to the House of Burgesses. Twenty Africans were condemned to the house of bondage.
Jill Lepore • These Truths
It is, in fact, objectivity’s self-appointed defenders themselves who have led its erosion. Rather than emphasize a fair reporting process , they focused obsessively on the appearanceand performanceof supposed personal objectivity, wielding the term to police personal expression—not journalistic work—in both public and private contexts. Their north... See more