7/3/18
Kevin Kruse Takes to Twitter to School Dinesh D'Souza in American History
Historians in the Newstags: immigration
If you're interested in civil rights & southern politics, some earlier threads:
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) July 3, 2018
Party realignment:https://t.co/aBngZY50td
Democrats and 1960s civil rights:https://t.co/c663YiBRwW
GOP's Southern Strategy:https://t.co/nugQNknlyy
Southern Republicans:https://t.co/Y7yCfwzPLs
Dinesh D’Souza gets a history lesson on Twitter. D’Souza has made a specialty of highlighting the undeniable racism of the 1960s Democratic Party as a way to tar the current party. His arguments ignore the way the two political parties switch positions on Civil Rights in the 1960s, with the Democrats embracing Civil Rights and Republicans, under the guidance of national leaders like Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, exploiting racist backlash. On Monday, D’Souza put up a challenge to his critics:
Princeton historian Kevin M. Kruse, a scholar who has made good use of Twitter as a forum to popularize academic knowledge, took D’Souza up on the request:
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