"In any liberal morality play, Democrats always get to be the shivering, oppressed black people, while Republicans have to play the part of Bull Connor, Birmingham, AL's racist commissioner of public safety. Except the facts are exactly the opposite. I'm sure you're bored of hearing this, but Connor was a Democrat, as were all the politicians promising "massive resistance" to racial integration. Republicans were the ones forcing Democrats to abide by federal law, along with a few John Fetterman- style Democrats."
"But the biggest fraud the media is trying to push on America is their total erasure of the most heroic actions ever taken by U.S. presidents: invoking the Insurrection Act and sending troops to the states to enforce federal law against protesting Democratic governors and individual citizens. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, then John F. Kennedy, deployed the military to compel Democrats to stop violating federal law-as set forth in the Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education."
Many liberals equate contemporary anti-ICE protesters with Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil-rights protests. Political roles during civil-rights struggles were reversed from modern partisan narratives: segregationist officials like Bull Connor were Democrats, while Republicans and some Democrats enforced federal court rulings. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy invoked the Insurrection Act and deployed federal troops to compel state compliance with Brown v. Board of Education. The central argument frames those deployments as heroic enforcement of constitutional rights for Black Americans and warns that current violations threaten the rights of the whole nation.
Read at The American Conservative
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