Cancel Woodrow Wilson

He was a reactionary on race and the Confederate cause in his own time.

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Hey,

I should be enjoying this more. 

Longtime readers (and listeners) are probably aware that I’ve been beating up on Woodrow Wilson for about 15 years now. 

When I was working on Liberal Fascism, among the most surprising things I learned was how terrible Woodrow Wilson was, and I’ve been something of a proselytizer of anti-Wilsonism. (I prefer not to use “Wilsonianism” or “Wilsonian” because I think that’s a school of foreign policy thought, whatever its flaws, that can be disconnected from the president who gave it its name.)

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    Honest Ape

    "Progressivism is never in the dock."

    "Dock" is such a great word used in this way. It's too bad it doesn't have more purchase in American English.

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  2. JFE

    So nice to read this again!

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    Vertical8fab

    “The Great Influenza,” by John Barry, 2004 — glance at references to Wilson’s suppression of alarmed doctors trying to spread the word and organize response, as the true pandemic really got rolling. Nice guy. (Kinda smacks of something Joe Stalin would have done — kill millions and have a more manageable population.)

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