Thursday, February 23, 2023
The Forgotten Ron DeSantis Book - The Atlantic
But the most revealing and consequential element of his book is not so much his drawing of a straight line from the founding precedents to the Tea Party movement's dissent over big government. It's rather how his entire reading of American history is enveloped in both unquestioning fealty to the Founders and an insistence that the role of slavery, and race more broadly, in that history does not seriously change anything about how we should understand the birth and development of our country. For Obama and his teachers, the problem of slavery exemplified the need to adapt and improve the Constitution. For DeSantis, would-be reformers who misunderstand the role of slavery in our history are themselves the root of the problem in our politics…
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