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Filibuster: Here s the best argument in favor
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Filibuster: Here s the best argument in favor
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doing, trent lott is probably better off as a loifbt and not a senator a lobbyist and not a senator. but it s important as a country to know that basically trent lott couldn t stay on as a senator. he certainly couldn t stay on as the top republican senator in washington once he was caught on tape talking the way he did about strom thurmond and his segregationist run for president. at some point, guys like, this the politics of guys like this, became something that normal politics choked on. there did used to be a lot of these guys around. and for a while, it felt like they were all going to live to be 500 years old. they all mostly died out. and i m 43 years old. over the course of might have lifetime, i have seen it become ethically unwieldy for anybody in mainstream politics to ally themselves with guys like this. this breed of reconstructed, you know, white, southern, race politicians. over the course of my lifetime, i have watched most of those guys die out. most of them. most o
had followed our lead, we wouldn t have had these problems over all these years either. that was in 2002. and it obviously went over great in the room but not in the country when senator trent lott said that. i think by 2002, some of the charm of these old southern guys like strom thurmond and jess helms, it was starting to wear off a bit. at the point he said that, at strom thurmond s 100th birthday, trent lott had been the top republican in the united states senate. two weeks after he said that on tape, two weeks after he said we would have been better off as a country if the whole country had voted for the segregation president like mississippi did in 1948, two weeks later he resigned his post in the senate. i should tell you, 2016, trent slott a very, very wealthy lobbyist, most recently seen this week in the new york times enthusing about what a bonanza the trump administration will be for lobbyists like him and his clients. ultimately seeing how well he s
that record was set against civil rights legislation, but it belongs to this guy. i wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there s not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to vote down segregation and admit to negro race into our theaters, into our homes and churches. that was strom thurmonds, south carolina, 1948. he ran for president that year on a segregation ticket. the basic idea behind his run for president was that the two political parties in our country were not racist enough that year. thurmond had to run for president in order to create a whole new party specifically to meet the racial needs of his constituents. the southern revolt against president truman reaches its climax at birmingham under the
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