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David Frum @davidfrum
3) Because so many of the urban immigrants of 1880-1914 returned home, it gave grounds to question whether immigrant voters truly intended to join the American political community fully and forever. 10/x https://t.co/wJEkqKGUQR — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Because so many of the urban immigrants of 1880-1914 returned home, it gave grounds to question whether immigrant voters truly intended to join the American political community fully and forever. 10/x https://t.co/iOYdz3A8rS. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Some lessons from the past: 1) Immigrant voting became unacceptable because it seemed to tilt close elections to one party; 2) Immigrant voting got associated with other behaviors that seemed to contemporaries indisputably bad; and finally ... 9/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
By 1920, immigrant voting had been almost entirely suppressed - and the voting place had become quieter, more orderly, and more welcoming to women. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Immigrant voting today qualifies as a "progressive" cause. But back in the 1890s, it was Progressives who led the fight against it. They tended to see the Democrats as the more reactionary party, opposed to necessary reforms including women's suffrage. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
2) The second factor was that as the immigrant vote concentrated in cities after 1880, it became associated with the drunkenness and rowdyism that many non-urban people attributed to urban elections. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Before the Civil War, immigrant voting had typically favored Republicans. In the hyper-competitive 1880s, the immigrant vote shifted to the Democrats - and became perceived by Republicans as a threat. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
What happened? The reading suggests 2 main factors: 1) Between the economic depressions of 1873 and 1893, the US entered a period of intensely close political competition. EG the presidential election of 1884 turned on fewer than 600 votes in the state of New York. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The rules on noncitizen voting tightened in the late 19th and early 20th century, as Alexander Keyssar describes in his history of voting rights in the US 3/x https://t.co/Gbyjkm7x3H — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Noncitizen voting was quite common in 19th century America, especially on the frontier. As this short history comments: "Many new states and territories used alien suffrage as an incentive to attract settlers." 2/x https://t.co/9hOHdMoabn — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Thread coming ... 1/x — PolitiTweet.org
Cliff Levy @cliffordlevy
NYC is about to become the largest municipality in the US to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. It would… https://t.co/kvpmDjV3uz
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @PoliticoRyan: Covid vaccination and death rate in Europe - in one devastating chart https://t.co/rPmIYKNKIo — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Latest @Femsplainers interviews @bariweiss -and opens with my attack on the tradition of presidential turkey pardons: ordinary working turkeys get eaten; influential, well-connected turkeys go free. https://t.co/QDLYCzK5kJ — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
More https://t.co/wU0Ii1piW5 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
More to the last thread. Remember, 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. https://t.co/bKeglZZKUy https://t.co/9bThGp264g — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
I have no insight into why it's so, but Joe Biden is the least audible and visible president since maybe Eisenhower's second term. Mentioning that invisibility is considered bad form in some quarters. But it's no less a problem for being unmentionable. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Trump never delivered an infrastructure bill. He barely even bothered to try. But he *talked* about it all the time - and inescapably what a president says is news. I bet there are a lot of Americans who to this day hear "Trump" and think he must have built something. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Those who are intensely politically engaged - myself included - need to work hard to remember what the world looks like to the tens of millions of Americans who are not. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
In a vast, regionalized, polarized country where almost 70 million people speak a language other than English in the home, it's futile to imagine that "the media" can communicate what the president does not / will not / cannot. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
If the president himself is not espousing what his party stands for (eg supporting local police forces; taking pride in US history), then opponents can seize on wayward remarks by down-ballot loudmouths without effective rebuttal. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
If the president himself is not regularly and forcefully communicating his policies and accomplishments - no surrogate can do it for him. https://t.co/0NTyLdI6WT — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @ariehkovler: The RNC call Trump the party's leader. They still pay his legal fees. The RNCC and RNSC use him extensively in their fundr… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @MollyJongFast: Just the RNC paying trump’s legal bills https://t.co/q86yt4sUCp — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @JonahDispatch: FWIW, I'm grateful for the support over the last few days. I'm happy & encouraged to see how folks lined up. But I will… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @kylegriffin1: The White House: Around 95% of the 3.5 million federal employees covered by President Biden's vaccine mandate for governm… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @te_rowley: Russia's Memorial organisation has been around for 33 years - but now it's under threat. We speak to researchers across Euro… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @DarthPutinKGB: All protests for better government against our cronies are western plots. People in these countries are incapable of dem… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @DarthPutinKGB: OTD in 2003 CIA & Soros staged Rose Revolution in Georgia. A gay, fascist, russophobic pogrom which eventually caused Ge… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @MacFarlaneNews: Video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept shows what happens as police tried to protect a closing door at US Capi… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
As the late Bob Bartley of the Wall Street Journal used to advise: "If you give a number, don't give a date. If you give a date, don't give a number." — PolitiTweet.org
Dow @mark_dow
There's a dude on here literally saying he was right to predict inflation in 2008--it just took longer than he thou… https://t.co/6YRTJMIDGu
