David Frum

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David Frum @davidfrum

How much of the course of US history would have been very different if Congress in the 1870s had returned to the easier money of the 1850s rather than inadvertently trigger the depression of 1873? Might Reconstruction have been saved? We can't know- but we can learn. END — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 13, 2022

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The vote in 1873 put the United States on a path toward two decades of economic crisis, labor turmoil, and political instability. It also cost the Republicans their majority in the House of Representatives in the 1874 - and thereby doomed Reconstruction and black civil rights 9/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 13, 2022

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The reason people are slum-dunking on crypto right now is not to take victory laps, but because we're scared that the most facially foolish financial scam in the long history of financial scams may infect the whole system and cost many non foolish people their jobs and savings — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 14, 2022 Deleted after a minute