When ESPN hired the radio talk show host, it legitimized his bigotry and offered a blueprint that his greatest acolyte followed into the White House.

President Biden should honor what looks like the best deal we’re ever going to get in that country.

He was a steadfast champion of Black voting rights, yet he presided over the end of Reconstruction.

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I am a libertarian-leaning conservative because the horrors of the Holocaust were engineered by government.

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