CNN Article Compares Entire Republican Party to Southern Slaveholders

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by Tamar Auber | Jul 27th, 2018, 3:49 pm

An op-ed published by CNN on Thursday compares the entire modern Republican party to Southern slaveholders.

Written by Manisha Sinha who serves as the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, the article sets out to answer the question of “what happened the last time a President chose America’s enemies over its friends.”

In her analysis, Sinha makes it clear from the very start that she believes Donald Trump is a flawed president and Russian interference helped get him elected.

“Donald Trump likes to compare himself to Andrew Jackson, but the Andrew he really resembles is Andrew Johnson,” Sinha wrote. “What they have in common are delusions of personal grandeur and a tainted ascent to the presidency. Trump was elected by a minority of the American electorate, with help from the vagaries of the Electoral College system and from considerable Russian interference.”

Continuing her comparison, Sinha then notes that the 1886 midterms had some striking similarities to 2018.

Johnson “played the race card, arguing that giving African-Americans rights would weaken whites’ rights. He called his political opponents traitors, even leading members of his own party,” Sinha wrote.

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