You know, the racist professor who threw the leader of the actual Socialist Party in jail for opposing his signature national security policy and who later initiated the first Red Scare of the 20th century.

I know to expect this from American conservatives but, sometimes the extent of their political illiteracy gets through and astounds me.

  • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 hours ago

    Palmer, citing Debs's deteriorating health, proposed to Wilson that Debs receive a presidential pardon freeing him on February 12, Lincoln's birthday. Wilson returned the paperwork after writing "Denied" across it.

    That moment when you're more draconian than the attorney general who's name is eponymous with anti communism.