Whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable
- Tuesday, February 16, 2021
“And it [Cruz’s ‘commission’ proposal] really draws its parallel in 1876, Hayes and Tilden. Don’t forget what that commission, that so-called ‘political compromise’ achieved. It was not just some ordinary governmental commission. It was a commission that killed Reconstruction, that established Jim Crow, that even after a Civil War that tore this nation apart, it re-enslaved African-Americans, and it was a commission that invited the same voter suppression we are still fighting today in America.”