Harold Meyerson: Trump is still the most dangerous president ever
by Harold Meyerson, Los Angeles Times
Mar 28, 2019
3 minutes
Well, Jefferson Davis didn't collude with a foreign power, either.
That said, the U.S.-senator-turned-Confederate-president did lead a blood-drenched rebellion against his country to enshrine the right of whites to enslave blacks.
Without any assistance from other nations, Chief Justice Roger Taney declared (in the Dred Scott decision) that African-Americans, whether in slave states or free, had no rights as citizens.
America's darkest moments haven't come when foreign powers nosed around in our affairs. They've come
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