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Defending the Indefensible
« on: June 15, 2017, 11:45:36 am »
June 15, 2017
Defending the Indefensible
By John Steinreich

The false narrative of Operation Trump-Russia is the latest in a long train of episodes wherein Democrats have actively defended the indefensible.  Emerging in the 1820s to counter the Whigs in favor of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the Democratic Party has had an age-old tradition of fighting to advance every bad idea in American history.

To their limited credit, Old Hickory's political team have had brief spurts of decency.  In their early days, the Jacksonians opposed centralized government, particularly as related to economics.  A late 19th-century faction called the Bourbon Democrats, among whom was President Grover Cleveland, championed fiscal responsibility.  Cleveland famously vetoed the 1887 Texas Seed Bill, which would have appropriated $10,000 to farmers in the Lone Star State for drought relief.  Cleveland upheld constitutionalism with this veto, expressing the following:

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