Love Letters

#Histfic novelist | Former political speechwriter | Sometime conservative/libertarian/classical liberal | #MakeRepublicansConservativeAgain

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

~ Vladimir Lenin

The best article I’ve found explaining the quarter-century march of CRT through American K-12 education.

https://t.co/AJsrQdot5R

[James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII]

🚨Los Angeles Election Fraud Caught on Hidden Camera

LA election petitioners were caught on tape giving homeless individuals other voters' information, instructing them to forge voter names and signatures, and offering cash and drugs as incentives to register to vote.

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

Why the 2A exists.👇🏻

[Joshua Claybourn @JoshuaClaybourn]

On Sunday, my friend Gordon Wood was struck and killed in a car accident. Gordon taught history at Brown Univ. and was among the most accomplished historians America has produced. He won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Radicalism of the American Revolution, and his earlier book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 took the 1970 Bancroft Prize. He also received the National Humanities Medal.

He was, in my view, the finest historian of America's founding—which makes it all the sadder that he did not live to see the nation's 250th birthday. His reputation reached popular culture, too. Matt Damon's character in Good Will Hunting invokes him by name in the famous bar scene, accusing a Harvard student of simply "regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about [...] the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization."

I feel fortunate to have collaborated with Gordon on several projects. In a 2019 anthology I compiled, he wrote an essay on the possibility of a shared American narrative. He centered his argument on equal rights as "the most radical and most powerful ideological force" the Revolution unleashed. "This powerful sense of equality is still alive and well in America," he wrote, "and despite all of its disturbing and unsettling consequences, it is what makes us one people."

When I needed jacket blurbs for my new book Lincoln's Compass, coming out this November, I turned to Gordon. The fit was natural: the book argues that Abraham Lincoln took the Declaration's claim that "all men are created equal" as his guiding moral compass—and that he refocused the nation on that claim. Gordon, ever the gentleman, offered generous praise.

He was, in many respects, the dean of American historians. He will be very hard to replace.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

There’s going to be a million of these stories coming forward. I have a few myself.

The @dojphofficial and @CivilRights need to crank up a repository and collect every single one of these. Sure, there will be some that can be rectified.

But, there are many that will not.

THIS election in California needs to be the line in the sand, America! We’ve been cheated too many times and pushed far over the line.

Liberate California. Liberate America.🇺🇸

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

Yes.👇🏻

It’s entirely possible Pratt will leave a more important legacy to America than he ever could’ve in LA.

Let’s hope.🙏🏻

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

Real talk Pratt may be the reason ballot harvesting gets declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

@HIETECH19 @PamelaHensley22 Bass isn’t a “progressive?”

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

“ShOw Me ThE eViDeNcE.”
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here is:

the single most shocking piece of evidence in the entirety of the November 3, 2020 election:

Statistically impossible:

“They were all in sequence. These are absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. They cannot be in sequence—2232 cannot have 2233 next to it—because they are mailed in and come in all different numbers.”

[@amuse @amuse]

FLASHBACK: in 2010, weeks after Election Day, Kamala Harris won California’s attorney general race by less than 1% after a surge of mail-in ballots from Los Angeles County erased her opponent’s lead.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

@AeonCoin @DanielitoG25 @gmoneyNFT So the people who vote early are democratic socialists who like homeless encampments and incumbents? And the people who vote late are democratic socialists who like homeless encampments and people in third place they need to get into second place?

Have I got that right?

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

@AeonCoin @DanielitoG25 @gmoneyNFT In PRE Election Day mail-in ballots, Raman was consistently 15 percentage points behind Bass.

In POST Election Day mail-in ballots, Bass’s totals are roughly flat and Raman has surged by double digits.

Statistically impossible.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

Probably the only silver lining of Pratt’s defeat.👇🏻

As Elon Musk and many others like him have said, once you see how corrupt the Left is, you can’t unsee it.

More normies are seeing it.

[Shawn Farash @Shawn_Farash]

Good morning X!

Many normies are seeing "The Steal" for the first time and they're horrified.

Spencer Pratt's campaign captivated the nation. Many people across the country were rooting for him. They thought he was advancing only to see now, that he probably isn't.

There's no looking the other way anymore. I truly hope we're witnessing a mass awakening this time.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory]

Notice how quickly the race for LA Mayor was called after Spencer Pratt fell to third place?

IMMEDIATELY!

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

“If we must stand alone, we will stand alone.”
— Benjamin Netanyahu

[Why Lie @TheNewBacklash]

You tried to unilaterally redefine the other 99.7% of the population.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

Finish them off!💪🏻

[Eli Afriat 🇮🇱 @EliAfriatISR]

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷BREAKING: The Israeli Air Force has begun a wave of strikes across Iran.

Explosions are heard in several locations!

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

The Buckley Rule still applies, people.

Most conservative candidates WHO CAN WIN.

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

“Why are you supporting Michele Tafoya and Lisa Demuth when they aren’t the ‘Republican endorsed’ candidates.”

Because Minnesota Republicans haven’t won a statewide election since 2006. We’re tied with California for the longest drought in the country.

I don’t care about the statewide Republicans endorsements anymore.

I’m backing the candidates who give us the best possible chance to win in November. Full stop.

[Love Letters @PoetCheesehead]

Fraud is like porn: it may be difficult to explain or prove, but you know it when you see it.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Nobody is surprised that Spencer Pratt is losing ground in the mail-in vote. That’s not the anomaly.

The anomaly is Nithya Raman dominating the mail vote and even outperforming Karen Bass.

It’s open and brazen cheating.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

They show this speech on a loop in the museum at Normandy. It’s that good.

[Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA]

America’s founders were obsessed with Jews.

This July 4th, America turns 250.

But there’s a Jewish side to that story that most have never heard.

James Madison studied Hebrew at Princeton.

Alexander Hamilton went to Hebrew school.

And Benjamin Franklin wanted Moses splitting the sea on the Great Seal of the United States.

But why?

“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation.” - John Adams

Because the core principles that define the American identity were rooted in the biblical tradition and culture carried by one people:

The Jews.

Freedom. Equality. The inherent value of every individual. And education as a universal right.

These ideas weren’t born in Rome or Athens but at Sinai, and were preserved throughout history by the Jewish people.

The founders didn’t just look to “Western values.”

They looked to the Torah.

They saw ancient Israel and the Jewish people as the ultimate model of a free people bound not by force but by covenant. Governing themselves under a shared sacred law.

And America was their attempt to do it again.

“May the Deity . . . who delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors [and] planted them in the promised land—whose providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States. . .”

@myJLI