He was always Putin’s marionette but for a little while, Putin was trying to convince people he could play at civilized. Putin fooled W and Obama with that one.
On election night in 2008, after the result was called for Obama, Fox turned to Bennett and asked his opinion. He said he never wanted to hear another word about racism because “we let a black man get elected.”
A year or two ago I read Roe. Mostly Blackmun just says “This is the same as Loving or Griswold, so I don’t have to re-argue the law”. Buth then he goes on a discussion about the history of abortion laws in the country.
He said largely, it was legal up until viability and that total bans didn’t start getting common until after the Civil War – and in the context of the Great Replacement Theory. “We can’t let abortions happen because the colored people will outbreed us” kind of thing
I was referring more to the sectarian violence that overwhelmed the country for years resulting in a lot of fatalities